oldness

oldness

Oldness is a library and shell command that places the age of a published work on a semi-arbitrary five-star scale.

Installation

 gem install oldness

 require 'oldness'

Usage

CLI

 $ oldness list
 animation
 comic
 film
 history
 literature
 novel
 philosophy
 rpg
 scifi
 videogame
 $ oldness rate comic 1987-10
 ****
 $ oldness ranges movie
 *****: 1894-02-05..1972-09-14
 **** : 1972-09-14..1998-11-27
 ***  : 1998-11-27..2007-08-22
 **   : 2007-08-22..2010-07-21
 *    : 2010-07-21..2012-01-04
 $ oldness first philosophy
 Tale of Genji (1010), by Murasaki Shikibu

Library

Declaring the existence of a medium is easy; you don't need a national reputation as a culture critic or scholar.

 class Rubies < Medium
   began Date.new(1979)
 end

Although of course it would be better if you could point to a particular work that you saw as kicking things off.

 class RockNRoll < Medium
   began Date.new(1944), :with => "Strange Things Happen Every Day", :by => "Sister Rosetta Tharpe"
 end

Mediums know how to rate by date.

Rubies.rate(Date.new(2010, 8, 29)) # => 3
Rubies.rate("2012-1-4") # => 1

They also know what dates fall under what ratings.

Rubies.ranges[5] #=> #<Date: 1979-01-01>..#<Date: 2001-01-02>

And, if you've told them, they remember their roots.

RockNRoll.first.title #=> "Strange Things Happen Every Day"
Rubies.first.by #=> "Unknown"

Just a reminder: mediums are timeless, so they never need to be instantiated.