From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-07-19T19:58:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding the date of an event based on related events.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Siep Korteling <s.korteling@gmail.com> wrote:
> To exclude just the weekends you could do
>
> class Date
>   def add_workdays(n)
>      days_to_add =((self.cwday+n-1)/5)*2 +n
>      self + days_to_add
>   end
>  end
>
> Which returns a new Date and seems to work with negative n's. (Just
> wrote this code, don't know if it's bullet proof).

It isn't.  It won't work if you start from a weekend day.

Use today (Saturday), and do

d = Date.today.add_workdays(5)
puts d

=> 2008-07-28

I like the approach, though.

Todd