From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-04T08:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: making a monthly calendar...

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Siep Korteling <s.korteling@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Todd Benson wrote:
>  > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Jeremy McAnally
>  > <jeremymcanally@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> There's a calendar_helper plugin if this is for a Rails app.  Works well for me.
>  >>
>  >>  --Jeremy
>  >
>  > I agree.  If this is to be productive, then you probably don't have to
>  > reinvent the wheel :)
>  >
>  > Todd
>
>  Yes. Here is my effort anyway:
>
>  require 'date'
>  require 'enumerator'
>
>  def days_to_show(year, month, num_week_rows)
>   # returns an array of the dates in month,
>   # with the last days of the preceding month
>   # and the first days of the next month
>
>   first_of_month = Date.new(year, month, 1)
>   first = first_of_month - (first_of_month.wday)+1
>   # +1 for weeks starting on monday, remove for weeks starting on sunday
>   last = first + (num_week_rows * 7)
>   (first...last).to_a
>  end
>
>  days = days_to_show(2008, 3, 6)
>  days.each_slice(7) do |week|
>   print "| "
>   week.each{|day| print day.to_s + "\t| "}
>   puts
>  end
>
>  The only thing noteworthy is the range of dates, which produces an
>  array.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Siep

Mikkel, this is excellent use of the Date#- and Date#+ methods, and a
much better approach.  I still think my solution is more fun :)

Todd