Converting strings to other objects

Methods
Public Instance methods
ord()

‘a’.ord == ‘a’[0] for Ruby 1.9 forward compatibility.

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    # File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb, line 9
 9:         def ord
10:           self[0]
11:         end
to_date()

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    # File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb, line 18
18:         def to_date
19:           ::Date.new(*::Date._parse(self, false).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday))
20:         end
to_datetime()

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    # File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb, line 22
22:         def to_datetime
23:           ::DateTime.civil(*::Date._parse(self, false).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday, :hour, :min, :sec).map { |arg| arg || 0 })
24:         end
to_time(form = :utc)

Form can be either :utc (default) or :local.

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    # File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/conversions.rb, line 14
14:         def to_time(form = :utc)
15:           ::Time.send("#{form}_time", *::Date._parse(self, false).values_at(:year, :mon, :mday, :hour, :min, :sec).map { |arg| arg || 0 })
16:         end