Via a comment in Jon Udell's blog, I came across Chronic, "a natural language (...) time and date parser written entirely in Ruby. It supports a staggering number of different ways of expressing the date and time." Very neat.
Well, Chronic is indeed a nice package; unless you have to work with European / German date formats. I submitted a feature request quite some time ago, but until now I have to use my little monkey patch to get it working (or at least to get the date part working).
Well, Chronic is indeed a nice package; unless you have to work with European / German date formats. I submitted a feature request quite some time ago, but until now I have to use my little monkey patch to get it working (or at least to get the date part working).
Good point. Is that monkey patch of yours available for others too?