From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2010-02-10T05:35:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] algorithm to truncate date to beginning of week?


On Feb 9, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Chuck Remes wrote:
> 
> Ooh, all of ActiveSupport for a little date manipulation? Nail, meet hammer!

Of course reinventing the wheel isn't necessarily a good thing either.

Here is another approach:

>> require 'chronic'
=> true
>> Time.now
=> Tue Feb 09 15:31:25 -0500 2010
>> Chronic.parse 'midnight last saturday'
=> Sun Feb 07 00:00:00 -0500 2010
>> Chronic.parse 'midnight last saturday', :now => Date.parse('12/25/2010')
=> Sun Dec 19 00:00:00 -0500 2010