Dates and Times
Date and time logic has a well-deserved reputation as some of the most complex and irritating logic in any application. Testing calendar logicâincluding time-based reports, automatic logouts, and â1 day agoâ text displaysâcan be a particular headache, but you can do a couple of things to simplify the time-logic beast.
Part of the Problem
We have a YAML file with some projects:
| â | runway:⨠name: Project Runway |
| â | start_date: â2015-01-20â |
| â | |
| â | greenlight:⨠name: Project Greenlight |
| â | start_date: â2015-02-04â |
| â | |
| â | gutenberg:⨠name: Project Gutenberg |
| â | start_date: â2015-01-31â |
Weâd like to test some time-based code that might be used in a search or report result; this goes in test/unit/project_test.rb ...
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