From 43398433e98f9f6a9666f53272a790035be629b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Koziarski Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 07:37:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a note to the documentation for the Date related Numeric extensions to indicate that they're approximations and shouldn't be used for critical calculations. [Koz]. Closes #4148. References #4146 git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@3821 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de --- activesupport/CHANGELOG | 3 +++ activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG index 12692c659c..ce3df8969c 100644 --- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG +++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ *SVN* +* Added a note to the documentation for the Date related Numeric extensions to indicate that they're +approximations and shouldn't be used for critical calculations. [Koz] + * Added Hash#to_xml and Array#to_xml that makes it much easier to produce XML from basic structures [DHH]. Examples: { :name => "David", :street_name => "Paulina", :age => 26, :moved_on => Date.new(2005, 11, 15) }.to_xml diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb index de726281b8..a69a6c5f64 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb @@ -1,7 +1,12 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc: module CoreExtensions #:nodoc: module Numeric #:nodoc: - # Enables the use of time calculations and declarations, like 45.minutes + 2.hours + 4.years + # Enables the use of time calculations and declarations, like 45.minutes + 2.hours + 4.years. + # + # Some of these methods are approximations, Ruby's core + # Date[http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/date/rdoc/index.html] and + # Time[http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/time/rdoc/index.html] should be used for precision + # date and time arithmetic module Time def minutes self * 60