reverbdotcom / flexyear

Simple natural language year range parsing (mid-80s, 1970s, 75-76)

Flexyear

Flexible years! Parse decades, ranges, and etc into low & high values.

Examples:

FlexYear.new("1980s").year_low == 1980
FlexYear.new("1980s").year_high == 1989
FlexYear.new("1980s").decade == 1980s

FlexYear.new("mid-80s").year_low == 1983
FlexYear.new("mid-80s").year_high == 1986
FlexYear.new("mid-80s").decade == 1980s

FlexYear.new(1983).year_low == 1983
FlexYear.new(1983).year_high == 1983
FlexYear.new(1983).decade == 1980s

FlexYear.new(198*).year_low == 1980
FlexYear.new(198*).year_high == 1989
FlexYear.new(198*).decade == 1980s

FlexYear.new(["1980s", "1988 - 2000", 2001]).year_low == 1980
FlexYear.new(["1980s", "1988 - 2000", 2001]).year_high == 2001
FlexYear.new(["1980s", "1988 - 2000", nil, 2001]).decades == [1980s, nil, nil, 2000s]

It's pretty flexible in the kinds of things it takes. For more examples, see the spec.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'flexyear'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install flexyear

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Test

rake

Publish a new version

We use bundlers rake commands to release versions. To cut and release a new version:

1. Update lib/flexyear/version.rb and increment to your new desired version
2. Commit and push your version bump
3. Run bundle exec rake release to package and publish that version