"We could develop some interpreter that would be able to parse and process a range of expressions that we might want to deal with. This would be quite flexible, but also pretty hard" (Martin Fowler, http://martinfowler.com/apsupp/recurring.pdf). Temporals is a Ruby parser for just that.
Temporals is NOT GUARANTEED to parse anything you give it. It has a limited, though rather large and flexible, vocabulary. If you come across something that doesn't parse properly, please write a spec test for it and send it to me: gems@behindlogic.com.
Just Ruby!
gem install temporals -s http://gemcutter.org
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dcparker (dcparker@gmail.com)
Daniel Parker (gems@behindlogic.com)
You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.
You can also clone the project with Git by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/dcparker/temporals