From: "Eric I." <rubytraining@...>
Date: 2008-06-04T07:39:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Commercial Calendar Calculations

On Jun 3, 3:43 pm, James Herdman <james.herd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in doing calculations with a commercial calendar.  For
> example, "Find every 2nd business day of the month for 2008".  I'm feeling a
> little long on how to approach the topic.  Does anyone know of a library I
> could leverage for such a thing (the ability to use said library in Rails is
> a must)?  If not, does anyone have experience that they could share on the
> matter?

When you say "2nd business day", do you mean logic like, "the 2nd of
the month if it's Tuesday-Friday or the first Monday of the month
otherwise"?  Or do you want to take into account a list of holidays
that might make certain weekdays not count as business days?

If it's the former, you could use the Date class (in the 'date'
library).  I don't know of a library that handles issues such as
holidays; have you've combed through rubyforge.org?

Eric

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