On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Gabriel Lamounier wrote:

> There was a past conversation where some of us agreed that it would be
> good if the <r:date> tag accepted another parameter besides "format"
> to indicate which date to show (published_at, created_at or
> updated_at).
>
> I think it's a good idea that this new parameter accept another value
> as "now" so it can show the actual date and time. For example, in a
> site I'm working on I had to create a tag to do just that, but it wold
> be a lot better to have this a standard feature.
>
> Is anyone working on it?
>
> Be Radiant!
> Gabriel
>

I couldn't figure out how to do exactly this, as my Ruby-fu is very 
very young. So I simply defined a new tag called now, as a clone of 
date:


   desc %{
     Renders the current date. The format attribute
     uses the same formating codes used by the Ruby @strftime@ function. 
By
     default it's set to @%A, %B %d, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

     *Usage:*
     <pre><code><r:now [format="format_string"] /></code></pre>
   }
   tag 'now' do |tag|
     page = tag.locals.page
     format = (tag.attr['format'] || '%A, %B %d, %Y')
     if date = Time.now
       date.strftime(format)
     end
   end

SInce I used both Copy and Paste, I presume this violates DRY all over 
the place. I'm still learning, and this works for now, but I'd love to 
see how you would create a :now symbol and pass it to r:date.

Walter

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