Introducing Nickel

Posted: 03/29/2009

A natural language date and time parser, with message extraction

Nickel is a client for Natural Inputs

  sudo gem install lzell-nickel



Then try it out:




  require 'rubygems'
  require 'nickel'
  n = Nickel.query "party this friday at 10pm"
  
  n.message # => party
  n.occurrences.first.start_date # => 20090403
  n.occurrences.first.start_time # => 22:00:00





Many more examples here.



        
     


     

        
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