From: Kieran Tully <kieran.tully@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T02:09:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Detecting holidays

On 1/2/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

> Them: Why did the report fail for Jan. 1st?
> Me: National holiday. There was no data to grab.  Ignore the failure.
> Them: Oh, right.
[snip]
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to do something like:
>
> if Date.today.is_national_holiday?
>   exit # Don't run report on this day
> end

Nice, but won't this just change the problem to:

 Them: Why is there no report for Jan. 1st?


What currently happens when the report 'fails'? Could you generate an
empty report that says

 'No data available for today. Was it a holiday?'

That might solve your actual problem, without introducing a 'holidays'
module. Though if your reports often fail for other reasons, perhaps
you do need to detect holidays to distinguish them rom real error
conditions.
-- 
Kieran Tully, Software Developer and Tenor, http://ktully.net