yusupova / zodiac

A small gem for calculating zodiac sign from a date of birth

zodiac

This is a fork of http://github.com/7even/zodiac.

What's different:

• no active record methods
• different date spans

zodiac is a simple gem for getting a zodiac sign from a given date of birth. It extends Time, Date and DateTime objects with a #zodiac_sign method and can also extend ActiveRecord::Base with several instance (delegated to some date attribute of the model object) and class methods (allowing you to search for objects with a certain zodiac sign)

Installation

gem install zodiac

Or, if you want to extend your rails app, add the following to the Gemfile:

gem 'zodiac'

and run bundle install.

Usage

Time/Date/DateTime usage

require 'zodiac'
Time.now.zodiac_sign                  # => "Aries"
require 'date'
Date.new(2011, 1, 1).zodiac_sign      # => "Capricorn"
DateTime.new(2011, 4, 30).zodiac_sign # => "Taurus"

#zodiac_sign returns values using I18n with "zodiac.#{sign}" path, so if you want your own translations, you can put them in your locale with keys like zodiac.aries, zodiac.taurus etc. See examples here.

There are also predicate methods which return true if the date is matching the specified zodiac sign (and false otherwise).

Date.new(1989, 2, 26).pisces? # => true
Time.gm(1978, 7, 12).gemini?  # => false