From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-12-02T05:48:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Timers, scheduling and Ruby

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Lipper, Matthew wrote:

>>    inclusive_endpoint = Time.now + 6.days
>                                                      ^^^^^^^^
> is there already a library/utility for the above somewhere?

written many times, but here's mine:

   class Numeric
     def microseconds() Float(self  * (10 ** -6)) end
     def milliseconds() Float(self  * (10 ** -3)) end
     def seconds() self end
     def minutes() 60 * seconds end
     def hours() 60 * minutes end
     def days() 24 * hours end
     def weeks() 7 * days end
     def months() 30 * days end
     def years() 365 * days end
     def decades() 10 * years end

     %w[
       microseconds milliseconds seconds minutes hours days weeks months years decades
     ].each{|m| alias_method m.chop, m}
   end

you don't have to write that part ;-)

>> make sense?
>
> think so; will try to add this weekend. If I have questions may I contact
> you offline? (I'm subscribed to CLR w/my work address -- cc'd address above
> is perfect!)

absolutely.

> np, thanks for the kind words! ...anyway, Martin Fowler did all the hard

i dunno about that - having transcribed quite a few books/articles into code
myself - it's hard wrapping your head around someone else's ideas/code.

cheers.

-a
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