validates_timeliness 1.0.0

data/CHANGELOG

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+= 1.0.0 [2008-12-06]
+- Gemified!
+- Refactor of plugin into a Data Mapper style validator class which makes for a cleaner implementation and possible future Merb\Data Mapper support
+- Added Rails 2.2 i18n support. Plugin error messages can specified in locale files. See README.
+- ignore_datetime_restriction_errors setting has been moved from AR to ValidatesTimeliness::Validator.ignore_restriction_errors
+- date_time_error_value_formats setting has been moved from AR to ValidatesTimeliness::Validator.error_value_formats
+- Namespaced modules and specs 
+- Clean up of specs
+- fixed a few bugs
+  - accessor methods not generating properly due method name stored as symbol in generated_attributes which fails on lookup
+  - force value assigned to time/datetime attributes to time objects
+
+= 0.1.0 [2008-12-06]
+- Tagged plugin as version 0.1.0
+
+= 2008-11-13
+- allow uppercase meridian to be valid [reported by Alex (http://alex.digns.com/)]
+
+= 2008-10-28
+- fixed bug when dirty attributes not reflecting change when attribute changed from time value to nil [reported by Brad (pvjq)]
+- fixes for Rails 2.2 compatibility. Will refactor in to Rails version specific branches in the future.
+
+= 2008-09-24
+- refactored attribute write method definitions
+
+= 2008-08-25
+- fixed bug for non-timezone write method not updating changed attributes hash [reported by Sylvestre Mergulhão]
+
+= 2008-08-22
+- fixed bug with attribute cache not clearing on write for date and time columns [reported by Sylvestre Mergulhão]
+- parse method returns Date object for date column assigned string as per normal Rails behaviour
+- parse method returns same object type when assigned Date or Time object as per normal Rails behaviour
+
+= 2008-08-07
+- modified matcher option value parsing to allow same value types as validation method
+- fixed matcher message
+
+= 2008-08-02
+- refactored validation
+- refactored matcher
+
+= 2008-07-30
+- removed setting values to nil when validation fails to preserve before_type_cast value

data/LICENSE

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+Copyright (c) 2008 Adam Meehan
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
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+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

data/README.rdoc

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+= validates_timeliness
+
+  * Source:  http://github.com/adzap/validates_timeliness
+  * Bugs:    http://adzap.lighthouseapp.com/projects/14111-validates_timeliness
+
+== DESCRIPTION:
+
+Validate dates, times and datetimes for Rails 2.x. Plays nicely with new Rails 2.1
+features such as automatic timezone handling and dirty attributes. Allows you to
+add custom formats or remove defaults easily. This allows you to control what you 
+think should be a valid date or time string.
+
+
+== FEATURES:
+
+* Adds ActiveRecord validation for dates, times and datetimes
+
+* Add or remove date/time formats to customize validation
+
+* Create new formats using very simple date/time format tokens
+
+* Restores ability to see raw value entered for date/time attributes with
+  _before_type_cast modifier, which was lost in Rails 2.1.
+
+* Respects new timezone features of Rails 2.1.
+
+
+== INSTALLATION:
+
+As plugin (from master)
+
+  ./script/plugin git://github.com/adzap/validates_timeliness
+
+As gem
+
+  sudo gem install validates_timeliness
+
+
+== USAGE:
+
+To validate a model with a date, time or datetime attribute you just use the 
+validation method
+
+  class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
+    validates_date :date_of_birth
+
+  end
+  
+The list of validation methods available are as follows:
+
+  * validates_date     - validate value as date
+  
+  * validates_time     - validate value as time only i.e. '12:20pm'
+  
+  * validates_datetime - validate value as a full date and time
+  
+The validation methods take the usual options plus some specific ones to restrict
+the valid range of dates or times allowed
+
+  Temporal options (or restrictions):  
+    :before       - Attribute must be before this value to be valid
+    :on_or_before - Attribute must be equal to or before this value to be valid
+    :after        - Attribute must be after this value to be valid
+    :on_or_after  - Attribute must be equal to or after this value to be valid
+
+  Regular validation options:  
+    :allow_nil    - Allow a nil value to be valid
+    :allow_blank  - Allows a nil or empty string value to be valid
+    :if           - Execute validation when :if evaluates true
+    :unless       - Execute validation when :unless evaluates false
+
+  Message options: - Use these to override the default error messages
+    :invalid_date_message
+    :invalid_time_message
+    :invalid_datetime_message
+    :before_message
+    :on_or_before_message
+    :after_message
+    :on_or_after_message
+
+The temporal restrictions can take 4 different value types:
+
+  * String value
+  * Date, Time, or DateTime object value
+  * Proc or lambda object
+  * A symbol matching the method name in the model  
+
+When an attribute value is compared to temporal restrictions, they are compared as 
+the same type as the validation method type. So using validates_date means all
+values are compared as dates.
+
+== EXAMPLES:
+
+  validates_date :date_of_birth :before => Proc.new { 18.years.ago },
+                                :before_message => "must be at least 18 years old"
+  
+  validates_time :breakfast_time, :on_or_after => '6:00am',
+                                  :on_or_after_message => 'must be after opening time',
+                                  :before => :second_breakfast_time,
+                                  :allow_nil => true
+
+  validates_datetime :appointment_date, :before => Proc.new { 1.week.from_now }
+ 
+
+=== DATE/TIME FORMATS:
+
+So what formats does the plugin allow. Well there are default formats which can 
+be added to easily using the plugins format rules. Also formats can be easily 
+removed without hacking the plugin at all. 
+
+Below are the default formats. If you think they are easy to read then you will 
+be happy to know that is exactly the format you can use to define your own if 
+you want. No complex regular expressions or duck punching (monkey patching) the
+plugin is needed.
+
+  Time formats:  
+    hh:nn:ss
+    hh-nn-ss
+    h:nn
+    h.nn
+    h nn
+    h-nn
+    h:nn_ampm
+    h.nn_ampm 
+    h nn_ampm
+    h-nn_ampm
+    h_ampm
+  
+  NOTE: Any time format without a meridian token (the 'ampm' token) is considered 
+        in 24 hour time.
+  
+  Date formats:  
+    yyyy/mm/dd
+    yyyy-mm-dd
+    yyyy.mm.dd
+    m/d/yy  OR  d/m/yy
+    m\d\yy  OR  d\m\yy
+    d-m-yy
+    d.m.yy
+    d mmm yy
+  
+  NOTE: To use non-US date formats see US/EURO FORMATS section
+  
+  Datetime formats:  
+    m/d/yy h:nn:ss   OR  d/m/yy hh:nn:ss
+    m/d/yy h:nn      OR  d/m/yy h:nn
+    m/d/yy h:nn_ampm OR  d/m/yy h:nn_ampm
+    yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss
+    yyyy-mm-dd h:nn
+    ddd mmm d hh:nn:ss zo yyyy # Ruby time string
+    yyyy-mm-ddThh:nn:ss(?:Z|zo) # ISO 8601
+
+  NOTE: To use non-US date formats see US/EURO FORMATS section
+
+Here is what each format token means:
+
+  Format tokens:   
+       y = year
+       m = month
+       d = day
+       h = hour
+       n = minute
+       s = second
+       u = micro-seconds
+    ampm = meridian (am or pm) with or without dots (e.g. am, a.m, or a.m.)
+       _ = optional space
+      tz = Timezone abbreviation (e.g. UTC, GMT, PST, EST)
+      zo = Timezone offset (e.g. +10:00, -08:00, +1000)
+
+  Repeating tokens:        
+       x = 1 or 2 digits for unit (e.g. 'h' means an hour can be '9' or '09')
+      xx = 2 digits exactly for unit (e.g. 'hh' means an hour can only be '09')
+      
+  Special Cases:
+      yy = 2 or 4 digit year
+   yyyyy = exactly 4 digit year
+     mmm = month long name (e.g. 'Jul' or 'July')
+     ddd = Day name of 3 to 9 letters (e.g. Wed or Wednesday)
+       u = microseconds matches 1 to 3 digits
+
+All other characters are considered literal. For the technically minded 
+(well you are developers), these formats are compiled into regular expressions 
+at runtime so don't add any extra overhead than using regular expressions 
+directly. So, no, it won't make your app slow!
+
+To see all defined formats look in lib/validates_timeliness/formats.rb.
+
+=== US/EURO FORMATS
+
+The perenial problem for non-US developers or applications not primarily for the
+US, is the US date format of m/d/yy. This is ambiguous with the European format
+of d/my/yy. By default the plugin uses the US formats as this is the Ruby default
+when it does date interpretation, and is in keeping PoLS (principle of least
+surprise). 
+
+To switch to using the :after => 1.day.from_nowEuropean (or Rest of The World) formats put this in an
+initializer or environment.rb
+
+  ValidatesTimeliness::Formats.remove_us_formats  
+
+Now '01/02/2000' will be parsed as 1st February 2000, instead of 2nd January 2000.
+
+=== CUSTOMISING FORMATS:
+
+I hear you say "Thats greats but I don't want X format to be valid". Well to 
+remove a format stick this in an initializer file
+
+  ValidatesTimeliness::Formats.remove_formats(:date, 'm\d\yy')
+
+Done! That format is no longer considered valid. Easy!
+
+Ok, now I hear you say "Well I have format that I want to use but you don't have it".
+Ahh, then add it yourself. Again stick this in an initializer file
+
+    ValidatesTimeliness::Formats.add_formats(:time, "d o'clock")
+
+Now "10 o'clock" will be a valid value. So easy, no more whingeing!
+
+You can embed regular expressions in the format but no gurantees that it will 
+remain intact. If you avoid the use of any token characters and regexp dots or 
+backslashes as special characters in the regexp, it may well work as expected. 
+For special characters use POSIX character classes for safety. See the ISO 8601 
+datetime for an example of an embedded regular expression.
+
+Because formats are evaluated in order, adding a format which may be ambiguous 
+with an existing format, will mean your format is ignored. If you need to make
+your new format higher precedence than an existing format, you can include the 
+before option like so
+
+    ValidatesTimeliness::Formats.add_formats(:time, 'ss:nn:hh', :before => 'hh:nn:ss')
+
+Now a time of '59:30:23' will be interpreted as 11:30:59 pm. This option saves
+you adding a new one and deleting an old one to get it to work.
+
+
+=== TEMPORAL RESTRICTION ERRORS:
+
+When using the validation temporal restrictions there are times when the restriction
+value itself may be invalid. Normally this will add an error to the model such as
+'restriction :before value was invalid'. These can be annoying if you are using 
+procs or methods as restrictions and don't care if they don't evaluate properly
+and you want the validation to complete. In these situations you turn them off.
+
+To turn them off:
+
+  ValidatesTimeliness::Validator.ignore_restriction_errors = true
+
+A word of warning though, as this may hide issues with the model and make those
+corner cases a little harder to test. In general if you are using procs or 
+model methods and you only care when they return  a value, then they should 
+return nil in all other situations. Restrictions are skipped if they are nil.
+
+=== OTHER CUSTOMISATION:
+
+The error messages for each temporal restrictions can also be globally overridden by 
+updating the default AR error messages like so
+
+For Rails 2.0/2.1:
+
+  ActiveRecord::Errors.default_error_messages.update(
+    :invalid_date     => "is not a valid date",
+    :invalid_time     => "is not a valid time",
+    :invalid_datetime => "is not a valid datetime",
+    :before           => "must be before %s",
+    :on_or_before     => "must be on or before %s",
+    :after            => "must be after %s",
+    :on_or_after      => "must be on or after %s"
+  )
+
+Where %s is the interpolation value for the restriction.
+
+Rails 2.2+ using the I18n system to define new defaults:
+
+  en:
+    activerecord:
+      errors:
+        messages:
+          on_or_before: "must equal to or before {{restriction}}"
+          on_or_after:  "must equal to or after {{restriction}}"
+
+The {{restriction}} signifies where the interpolation value for the restriction
+will be inserted.
+
+And for something a little more specific you can override the format of the interpolation
+values inserted in the error messages for temporal restrictions like so
+
+  ValidatesTimeliness::Validator.error_value_formats.update(
+    :time     => '%H:%M:%S',
+    :date     => '%Y-%m-%d',
+    :datetime => '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
+  )
+
+Those are Ruby strftime formats not the plugin formats.
+
+
+=== RSPEC MATCHER:
+
+To sweeten the deal that little bit more, you have an Rspec matcher available for
+you model specs. Now you can easily test the validations you have just written 
+with the plugin or better yet *before* you write them! You just use the 
+validation options you want as you would with the validation method. Those 
+options are then verified and reported if they fail. Use it like so:
+
+   @person.should validate_date(:birth_date, :before => Time.now, :before_message => 'should be before today')
+
+
+The matcher names are just the singular of the validation methods.
+
+== CREDITS:
+
+* Adam Meehan (adam.meehan@gmail.com, http://duckpunching.com/)
+
+* Jonathan Viney (http://workingwithrails.com/person/4985-jonathan-viney)
+  For his validates_date_time plugin which I have used up until this plugin and
+  which influenced some of the design and I borrowed a little of code from it.
+
+
+== LICENSE:
+
+Copyright (c) 2008 Adam Meehan, released under the MIT license

data/Rakefile

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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'rake/gempackagetask'
+require 'rubygems/specification'
+require 'date'
+require 'spec/rake/spectask'
+
+GEM = "validates_timeliness"
+GEM_VERSION = "1.0.0"
+AUTHOR = "Adam Meehan"
+EMAIL = "adam.meehan@gmail.com"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/adzap/validates_timeliness"
+SUMMARY = "Date and time validation plugin for Rails 2.x which allows custom formats"
+
+spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name = GEM
+  s.version = GEM_VERSION
+  s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
+  s.rubyforge_project = "validatestime"
+  s.has_rdoc = true
+  s.extra_rdoc_files = ["README.rdoc", "LICENSE", "TODO", "CHANGELOG"]
+  s.summary = SUMMARY
+  s.description = s.summary
+  s.author = AUTHOR
+  s.email = EMAIL
+  s.homepage = HOMEPAGE
+  
+  # Uncomment this to add a dependency
+  # s.add_dependency "foo"
+  
+  s.require_path = 'lib'
+  s.autorequire = GEM
+  s.files = %w(LICENSE README.rdoc Rakefile TODO CHANGELOG) + Dir.glob("{lib,spec}/**/*")
+end
+
+task :default => :spec
+
+desc "Run specs"
+Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new do |t|
+  t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
+  t.spec_opts = %w(-fs --color)
+end
+
+
+Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |pkg|
+  pkg.gem_spec = spec
+end
+
+desc "install the gem locally"
+task :install => [:package] do
+  sh %{sudo gem install pkg/#{GEM}-#{GEM_VERSION}}
+end
+
+desc "create a gemspec file"
+task :make_spec do
+  File.open("#{GEM}.gemspec", "w") do |file|
+    file.puts spec.to_ruby
+  end
+end

data/TODO

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+- :between option
+- :format option
+- :with_date and :with_time options
+- Merb and Data Mapper support
+  - does it have before_type_cast
+  - timezone handling
+  - view helper support
+- valid formats could come from locale file