class Date

Allow a Date to be constructed from any Date or DateTime subclass, or parsed from a String

Public Class Methods

new(*a, &b) click to toggle source

If someone calls allocate/initialize, make that work … just don’t mess up DateTime which is a subclass of Date

# File lib/date/constructor.rb, line 7
def initialize *a, &b
  marshal_load(self.class.new(*a, &b).marshal_dump) unless self.is_a?(DateTime)
end

new(*a, &b) click to toggle source

# File lib/date/constructor.rb, line 11
def self.new *a, &b
  if a[0].is_a?(String)
    parse(*a)
  elsif (a.size == 1)
    case a[0]
    when DateTime
      civil(a[0].year, a[0].month, a[0].day, a[0].start)
    when Date
      a[0].clone
    else
      civil(*a, &b)
    end
  else
    civil(*a, &b)
  end
end