github.com/darkleaf/date_range_formatter

Date Range Formatter

This gem makes working with dates more pretty. It works well with Ruby application and most frameworks like Ruby on Rails.

Installation

Very simple. Just add this code to Gemfile:

gem 'date_range_formatter'

Usage

Imagine the situation when you need to show dates of some stuff at your website. For example:

1 - 9 May 2014
2 January 2015
15 July 2016 - 13 February 2017

After that you should call the module DateRangeFormatter with arguments wchich describes the range of dates and format to display. For example, we have date_beginning, date_ending and format by default:

DateRangeFormatter.format('2013-01-14', '2013-02-15')
#=> '14 January - 15 February 2013'

Also you can use format_range method and enumerable object:

DateRangeFormatter.format_range(['2013-02-20', '2013-01-14', '2013-01-15'])
#=> '14 January - 20 February 2013'

If you want to show dates by another format, you can call it:

date_beginning = Date.new(2013, 01, 14)
date_ending = Date.new(2014, 02, 15)
date_range_str = DateRangeFormatter.format(date_beginning, date_ending, 'short')

If you want to show hours, you can call it:

DateRangeFormatter.format('10:00 2013-01-14', '20:00 2013-01-14', :with_time)
#=> '14 January 2013, 10am - 08pm'

See predefined formats. Also you can override this formats or add your own.

That's all. Enjoy your profit!

Other

This idea was appeared by looking at the article. Thanks to @mbillard.