From: James Herdman <james.herdman@...>
Date: 2008-06-04T09:59:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Commercial Calendar Calculations

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Donald,
I'm definitely interested in hearing about the details.  I'll be having to
deal with an RDBMS as well.

James

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Donald Ball <donald.ball@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:43 PM, James Herdman <james.herdman@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?
>
> The runt gem provides a nice library for working with recurring
> events, it's probably got what you're looking for.
>
> Personally, I looked at runt for an event calendar I built sometime
> last year, but it didn't end up being useful as I needed to be able to
> store the events in a relational database and query for matching
> events therein. To use runt, I'd have had to hydrate all of the events
> whenever I wanted to run a query. That was too slow for my use case,
> so I ended up doing it all in sql. I'll be happy to share the details
> of that implementation if you're in a similar boat.
>
> - donald
>
>

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