Date/Time Range

Ruby
1

It seems that every time I implement a class in Ruby I later find out
someone has already done a much better job than myself.

So before I take the time to implement a TimeRange class myself, I
thought
I’d ask if there was anything out there similar.

I’d like to be able to do something like the following:

start_date = Time.parse “9/1/2006”
end_date = Time.parse “9/2/2006”

r = TimeRange.new(start_date, end_date)

r.each_hour do |hour|
…
end

r.each_day do |day|
…
end

r.each(1800) do |half_hour|
…
end

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,
Michael G.

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On Tuesday, September 19, 2006, at 3:40 AM, Michael G. wrote:

Thanks,
Michael G.

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Hmmm… strange that you should ask.

a = Time.now

(Unit(‘0 h’)…Unit(‘10 h’)).map {|hour|a + hour}

[Mon Sep 18 20:53:30 EDT 2006, Mon Sep 18 21:53:30 EDT 2006, Mon Sep 18
22:53:30 EDT 2006, Mon Sep 18 23:53:30 EDT 2006, Tue Sep 19 00:53:30 EDT
2006, Tue Sep 19 01:53:30 EDT 2006, Tue Sep 19 02:53:30 EDT 2006, Tue
Sep 19 03:53:30 EDT 2006, Tue Sep 19 04:53:30 EDT 2006, Tue Sep 19
05:53:30 EDT 2006, Tue Sep 19 06:53:30 EDT 2006]

To do this, you need to use the ‘ruby-units-0.2.1’ gem.
I’m putting a few finishing touches on it, but it should be available
later tonight. There are also a bunch of handy time helper functions as
well.

PS. Works with seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, fortnights, years,
etc…
The range version requires that the interval be integers, so you would
have to use another looping structure for 15-min or 30-min intervals.

_Kevin

_Kevin
www.sciwerks.com

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On 9/18/06, Kevin O. [email protected] wrote:

end

To do this, you need to use the ‘ruby-units-0.2.1’ gem.

_Kevin
www.sciwerks.com

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Perfect! This should do exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks!
Michael G.

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On Tuesday, September 19, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Michael G. wrote:

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I’d like to be able to do something like the following:

r.each_day do |day|
Michael G.
[Mon Sep 18 20:53:30 EDT 2006, Mon Sep 18 21:53:30 EDT 2006, Mon Sep 18
PS. Works with seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, fortnights, years,
www.sciwerks.com

I just uploaded the gem to rubyforge. Allow some time for propogation.

_Kevin
www.sciwerks.com