…times and dates have come a long way, now that Timecop is around. Prior to Timecop, we would use a stubbing library like Mocha to stub out just what we needed, but why do that when Van Damme could beat the right values out of Time ?
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Timecop
A developer at our office was working with some relative time methods. These are inherently tricky to test, because if "next week" means "next business week", you can't just willy-nilly add 7 days to a day and do tests. Same with "this week", etc.
Instead of doing a bunch of complicated date math that would arguably make the tests just as scary as the code, we found Timecop , which lets you freeze time for your tests. You can say, "I …
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Fix bug that would not allow Timecop to be used when Ruby's ‘date'
library had not been previously loaded.
Code contributed by Tuomas Kareinen [ tuomas ]
Fix bug when traveling to a DateTime across a DST boundary that
resulted in DateTime's being off by an hour.
Migrate argument parsing into Timecop:: TimeStackItem to reduce the
responsibility of the Timecop class.
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