Chronic.parse "1 year, 7 months ago" breaks

[bendangelo]

Running that line gives this error:

[6] pry(main)> Chronic.parse "1 year, 7 months ago"
NoMethodError: undefined method `start=' for nil:NilClass
from /Users/ben/.rvm/gems/ruby-3.2.2/gems/chronic-0.10.2/lib/chronic/handlers.rb:517:in `get_anchor'

[sriram0601]

This discussion may helps you #338, or what is your expected result?

[bendangelo]

Hi, thanks. I would expect something like this as the output:

Time.current - ChronicDuration.parse("1 year, 7 months ago")

Or at the very least it doesn't throw an error.

[Rockster160]

+1 Here. Running into the same issue.

::Chronic.parse("3 hours and 30 minutes ago")

The workaround is to break it apart: ::Chronic.parse("210 minutes ago"), but that is kind of the purpose of the gem, isn't it? That's not easy to do if you are pulling user-provided text.