I guess my question can be summed up as: can you create a recurring event for every other week using the Runt class?
On Nov 10, 3:20 pm, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning on using Runt to calculate recurring events. I > calculate a Runt object in the view and use it to see if it includes a > certain date, which is populates from the database, and display the > info for that date if it is included. I have recurring events for > every week, which was pretty easy to set up. I can just say: > > r = Runt::DIWeek.new(4) > > For a recurring event every Thursday, and then do r.include(some_date) > to see if it falls on a Thursday. The > question I have is for developing recurring events for other time > limits, such as twice a month/every other week, once a month, once > every other month, once every six months. To create Runt expressions > for every other week, you can create an expression using the day name > with respect to its order in the month. So, for example, you can say > I want a recurring event for the first Tuesday of every month and that > would look like this: > > r = Runt::DIMonth.new(First,Tuesday) > > You are allowed to use these orderings: (first|second|third|fourth| > last|second_to_last). So this will allow me to do the expressions > every other week and once a month. But my question is, does anyone > have a fast clean way of figuring out the ordering of a day within the > month given its date. So, for example, if I have the date November > 20th, 2008 and I want to figure out if that is the first, second, > third, or fourth Thursday of the month how would I do this? > > I guess the easiest way is to write a function that takes the day > number and divides the date by 7? If its less than or equal to one > then it is the first day of the month, if it has a remainder of one > then it is the second and so on... Just looking for some feedback on > this idea and any other ideas. Maybe there is some way to do it with > the Runt class? Thanks, Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
