chronic

https://github.com/mojombo/chronic

Ruby

Chronic is a pure Ruby natural language date parser.

Chronic::Tag.match_item

Internal: Match item and create respective Tag class.
          When item is a Symbol it will match only when it's identical to Token.
          When it's a String it will case-insesitively match partial token,
          but only if item's last char have different type than token text's next char.
          When item is a Regexp it will match by it.

item    - Item to match. It can be String, Symbol or Regexp.
klass   - Tag class to create.
symbol  - Tag type as symbol or string to pass to Tag class.
token   - Token to match against.
options - Options as hash to pass to Tag class.

Returns an instance of specified Tag klass or nil if item didn't match.

Source | Google | Stack overflow

Edit

git clone [email protected]:mojombo/chronic.git

cd chronic

open lib/chronic/tag.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chronic--Tag-match_item-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chronic/tag.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chronic::Tag.match_item"

# Open pull request

gem install hub # on a mac you can `brew install hub`

hub fork

git push <your name> -your-name--update-docs-Chronic--Tag-match_item-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!