MAmajke·Jan 24, 2013
Not to be confused with this Delorean: https://github.com/bebanjo/delorean
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DISCONTINUED - Delorean lets you travel in time with Ruby by mocking Time.now
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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
453GitHub stars
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DISCONTINUED - Delorean lets you travel in time with Ruby by mocking Time.now
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Observed mentions: 2012-12-11 19:56:50 UTC to 2013-01-24 00:25:15 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10 | 2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 17 | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 24 | 2012-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31 | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 7 | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 14 | 2013-01-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 21 | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesRubyists desiring similar functionality should check out either of the following libs. As far as I can tell they differ only in their pun selection.
https://github.com/travisjeffery/timecop
https://github.com/bebanjo/delorean
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