Parsing string to time in RubyMotion

ruby, rubymotion

Solution

It's not as automatic, but you could use `NSDateFormatter`

date_formatter = NSDateFormatter.alloc.init
date_formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
date = date_formatter.dateFromString "2010-12-15T13:16:45Z"
puts date.description

Problem

I try to parse a text representation of a time into a ruby Time object. Normally in ruby I would do it like this: ``` require 'time' Time.parse('2010-12-15T13:16:45Z') # => 2010-12-15 13:16:45 UTC ``` In RubyMotion I am unable to require libs and Time.parse is not available: ``` (main)> require 'time' => #<RuntimeError: #require is not supported in RubyMotion> (main)> (main)> Time.parse => #<NoMethodError: undefined method `parse' for Time:Class> ``` Is there a way to require the time library provided by ruby without having to copy and rewrite the whole code to make it compatible with RubyMotion?

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