Chronic like input for Ice Cube

[dylanz]

I'm not sure if something like this exists or not, but I was wondering if there was any parser out there that took natural language and pushed it into an IceCube format.

Example: "daily" schedule.add_recurrence_rule Rule.daily

Example: "everytuesday" schedule.add_recurrence_rule Rule.weekly(1).day(:tuesday)

Example: "3pm" ... etc

Does something like this exist yet?

[dnrce]

It doesn't generate IceCube objects, but tickle leverages chronic to do recurrence parsing. You might be able to use some of its code to do what you want to do.

[avit]

We should absolutely reference Tickle instead of reinventing the wheel. Thanks for the link @zoombody.

It looks like it would be relatively simple to add your own IceCube::LanguageParser based on Tickle. It wouldn't cover all the possible cases, but it would still be useful. I wonder if it's worth adding it as a dependency to IceCube.

Please do investigate.