Mongoid DayTime type

Save time in minutes from midnight and show as 24-format string in HH:MM

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Some usefull link for create custom type for Mongoid.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mongoid-day_time'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

# in your app/models/my_awesome_model.rb
class MyAwesomeModel
  include Mongoid::Document

  field :name, type: String
  field :time, type: Mongoid::DayTime::Type, default: "9:35"

end

# in irb:
2.6.0 :01 > MyAwesomeModel.create(name: "foobar", time: "10:15")
 => #<MyAwesomeModel _id: 5c601a38f047055bcd9f2888, name: "foobar", time: 615>
2.6.0 :02 > m = MyAwesomeModel.last
 => #<MyAwesomeModel _id: 5c601a38f047055bcd9f2888, name: "foobar", time: 615>
2.6.0 :03 > m.read_attribute_before_type_cast :time
 => 615
2.6.0 :04 > m.time
 => "10:15"

Gotchas 😏

DayTime type has not validation, you can type 10:75 and this respresents as 10 * 60 + 75 = 675 minutes what corresponds 11:15

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec or bin/rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at github.com/Yegorov/mongoid-day_time.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.