Add Date#since, ago, beginning_of_day, and end_of_day. Date + seconds works now. Closes #8575.

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@6937 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

activesupport/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Add Date#since, ago, beginning_of_day, and end_of_day. Date + seconds works now.  #8575 [Geoff Buesing]
+
 * String#to_time overflows to DateTime. Add String#to_datetime.  #8572 [Geoff Buesing]
 
 * Date.yesterday and .tomorrow.  #8571 [Geoff Buesing]

activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/calculations.rb

@@ -23,6 +23,32 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
           end
         end
         
+        # Converts Date to a Time (or DateTime if necessary) with the time portion set to the beginning of the day (0:00)
+        # and then subtracts the specified number of seconds
+        def ago(seconds)
+          to_time.since(-seconds)
+        end
+
+        # Converts Date to a Time (or DateTime if necessary) with the time portion set to the beginning of the day (0:00)
+        # and then adds the specified number of seconds
+        def since(seconds)
+          to_time.since(seconds)
+        end
+        alias :in :since
+
+        # Converts Date to a Time (or DateTime if necessary) with the time portion set to the beginning of the day (0:00)
+        def beginning_of_day
+          to_time
+        end
+        alias :midnight :beginning_of_day
+        alias :at_midnight :beginning_of_day
+        alias :at_beginning_of_day :beginning_of_day
+
+        # Converts Date to a Time (or DateTime if necessary) with the time portion set to the end of the day (23:59:59)
+        def end_of_day
+          to_time.end_of_day
+        end
+        
         def plus_with_duration(other) #:nodoc:
           if ActiveSupport::Duration === other
             other.since(self)

activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb

@@ -65,15 +65,12 @@ module ActiveSupport
     
     def sum(sign, time = ::Time.now) #:nodoc:
       parts.inject(time) do |t,(type,number)|
-        if t.acts_like?(:time)
+        if t.acts_like?(:time) || t.acts_like?(:date)
           if type == :seconds
             t.since(sign * number)
           else
             t.advance(type => sign * number)
           end
-        elsif t.acts_like?(:date)
-          raise ArgumentError, "Adding seconds to a Date does not make sense" if type == :seconds
-          t.advance(type => sign * number)
         else
           raise ArgumentError, "expected a time or date, got #{time.inspect}"
         end

activesupport/test/core_ext/date_ext_test.rb

@@ -139,4 +139,20 @@ class DateExtCalculationsTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def test_tomorrow_constructor
     assert_equal Date.today + 1, Date.tomorrow
   end
+  
+  def test_since
+    assert_equal Time.local(2005,2,21,0,0,45), Date.new(2005,2,21).since(45)
+  end
+  
+  def test_ago
+    assert_equal Time.local(2005,2,20,23,59,15), Date.new(2005,2,21).ago(45)
+  end
+  
+  def test_beginning_of_day
+    assert_equal Time.local(2005,2,21,0,0,0), Date.new(2005,2,21).beginning_of_day
+  end
+  
+  def test_end_of_day
+    assert_equal Time.local(2005,2,21,23,59,59), Date.new(2005,2,21).end_of_day
+  end
 end

activesupport/test/core_ext/numeric_ext_test.rb

@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ class NumericExtDateTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
   def test_date_plus_duration
     assert_equal @today + 1, @today + 1.day
     assert_equal @today >> 1, @today + 1.month
-    assert_raises(ArgumentError) { @today + 1.second }
+    assert_equal @today.to_time.since(1), @today + 1.second
+    assert_equal @today.to_time.since(60), @today + 1.minute
+    assert_equal @today.to_time.since(60*60), @today + 1.hour
   end
   
   def test_chaining_duration_operations