chronicle 0.0.2 → 0.0.3

data/README.md

@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ Chronicle
 =========
 
 Chronicle groups collections of ruby objects into time periods.
-It uses [Chronic](https://github.com/mojombo/chronic/) to parse natural language date strings
-and [ActiveSupport::OrderedHash](http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveSupport/OrderedHash)
-to preserve the hash order.
+It uses [Chronic](https://github.com/mojombo/chronic/) to parse natural language date strings.
 
 ```ruby
 # Before:
@@ -20,7 +18,9 @@ to preserve the hash order.
 }
 ```
 
-An example UI using Chronicle:
+Chronicle was created for [Sniphr](http://sniphr.com), a pet project of mine that makes 
+bookmarking awesome. I wanted to reduce UI chatter by displaying a minimal timeline 
+beside the content, instead of a timestamp under every element. Here's what it looks like:
 
 [ !["Chronicle on Sniphr"](http://f.cl.ly/items/2I2q0P0w2Z2r0D0d390D/chronicle.png "Chronicle on Sniphr") ](http://sniphr.com "Sniphr")
 
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Installation
 
 ```ruby
 # Put this in your Gemfile and smoke it.
+# Ruby 1.9 or greater is required, because chronicle relies on ordered hashes.
 gem 'chronicle'
 ```
 

data/chronicle.gemspec

@@ -24,5 +24,4 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_development_dependency 'autotest'
 
   s.add_runtime_dependency "chronic"
-  s.add_dependency 'rails'
 end

data/lib/chronicle.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'chronic'
-require 'active_support/all' # OrderedHash
 require 'chronicle'
 
 module Chronicle
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ module Chronicle
     ]
   end
 
-  class ChronicleHash < ActiveSupport::OrderedHash
+  class ChronicleHash < Hash
 
     def initialize(collection, options)
       
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ module Chronicle
       # Sort eras oldest to newest
       eras = eras.sort_by {|era| Chronic.parse(era) }
     
-      # Initialize all OrderedHash keys chronologically (newest to oldest)
+      # Initialize all hash keys chronologically (newest to oldest)
       eras.reverse.each {|era| self[era] = [] }
 
       # Find the oldest era in which each object was created
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ module Chronicle
       end
     
       # Remove keys for empty eras
-      self.keys.each {|k| self.delete(k) if self[k].blank? }
+      self.keys.each {|k| self.delete(k) if self[k].empty? }
     
       self
     end

data/lib/chronicle/version.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Chronicle
-  VERSION = "0.0.2"
+  VERSION = "0.0.3"
 end

data/spec/chronicle_spec.rb

@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ require 'spec_helper'
 describe Chronicle do
 
   before(:each) do
+    minute = 60
+    hour = minute*60
+    day = hour*24
     @things = [
-      double("thing", :created_at => 39.days.ago),
-      double("thing", :created_at => 8.days.ago),
-      double("thing", :created_at => 9.days.ago),
-      double("thing", :created_at => 3.days.ago),
-      double("thing", :created_at => 10.minutes.ago),
+      double("thing", :created_at => Time.now - 39*day),
+      double("thing", :created_at => Time.now - 8*day),
+      double("thing", :created_at => Time.now - 9*day),
+      double("thing", :created_at => Time.now - 3*day),
+      double("thing", :created_at => Time.now - 10*minute),
       double("thing", :created_at => Time.now)
     ]
     
@@ -16,7 +19,7 @@ describe Chronicle do
   end
 
   it "doesn't have any empty eras" do
-    @chronicle.values.all? {|v| v.present? }.should == true
+    @chronicle.values.all? {|v| !v.empty? }.should == true
   end
   
   it "sorts era keys from newest to oldest" do
@@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ describe Chronicle do
   
   it "accounts for objects that were just created" do
     now = @chronicle['just now']
-    now.should_not be_blank
+    now.should_not be_empty
     now.should be_an(Array)
     now.first.should == @things.last
   end
@@ -62,12 +65,15 @@ describe Chronicle do
   context "custom date attribute" do
     
     before(:each) do
+      minute = 60
+      hour = minute*60
+      day = hour*24
       @things = [
-        double("thing", :updated_at => 369.days.ago, :created_at => nil),
-        double("thing", :updated_at => 9.days.ago, :created_at => nil),
-        double("thing", :updated_at => 8.days.ago, :created_at => nil),
-        double("thing", :updated_at => 3.days.ago, :created_at => nil),
-        double("thing", :updated_at => 10.minutes.ago, :created_at => nil),
+        double("thing", :updated_at => Time.now - 369*day, :created_at => nil),
+        double("thing", :updated_at => Time.now - 9*day, :created_at => nil),
+        double("thing", :updated_at => Time.now - 8*day, :created_at => nil),
+        double("thing", :updated_at => Time.now - 3*day, :created_at => nil),
+        double("thing", :updated_at => Time.now - 10*minute, :created_at => nil),
         double("thing", :updated_at => Time.now, :created_at => nil)
       ]
     end

data/spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -1,14 +1,8 @@
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'bundler/setup'
-
 require 'chronicle'
 include Chronicle
 
-require 'active_support/all' # to get methods like blank? and starts_with?
-
-# include ActionView::Helpers
-include ActiveSupport
-
 RSpec.configure do |config|
   # some (optional) config here
 end

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
 name: chronicle
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-  version: 0.0.2
+  version: 0.0.3
   prerelease: 
 platform: ruby
 authors:
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ authors:
 autorequire: 
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
-date: 2012-02-27 00:00:00.000000000 Z
+date: 2012-02-29 00:00:00.000000000 Z
 dependencies:
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
   name: hoe
-  requirement: &70113761128700 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  requirement: &70345089392060 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
     none: false
     requirements:
     - - ! '>='
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ dependencies:
         version: '0'
   type: :development
   prerelease: false
-  version_requirements: *70113761128700
+  version_requirements: *70345089392060
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
   name: rspec
-  requirement: &70113761128200 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  requirement: &70345089391560 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
     none: false
     requirements:
     - - ~>
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ dependencies:
         version: 2.8.0
   type: :development
   prerelease: false
-  version_requirements: *70113761128200
+  version_requirements: *70345089391560
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
   name: autotest
-  requirement: &70113761127780 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  requirement: &70345089391140 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
     none: false
     requirements:
     - - ! '>='
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ dependencies:
         version: '0'
   type: :development
   prerelease: false
-  version_requirements: *70113761127780
+  version_requirements: *70345089391140
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
   name: chronic
-  requirement: &70113761127320 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  requirement: &70345089390680 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
     none: false
     requirements:
     - - ! '>='
@@ -54,18 +54,7 @@ dependencies:
         version: '0'
   type: :runtime
   prerelease: false
-  version_requirements: *70113761127320
-- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency
-  name: rails
-  requirement: &70113761126900 !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
-    none: false
-    requirements:
-    - - ! '>='
-      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
-        version: '0'
-  type: :runtime
-  prerelease: false
-  version_requirements: *70113761126900
+  version_requirements: *70345089390680
 description: Chronicle groups collections of ruby objects into time periods.
 email:
 - zeke@sikelianos.com