From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-09-05T03:16:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] recurrence 0.1.0, Ruby library for recurring stuff


On Sep 3, 2008, at 22:09 , EdvardM wrote:

> Short example:
>
>  require 'recurrence'
>
>  first_of_june = [2008, 6, 1]
>  r = Recurrence.new(first_of_june, :every_other => :week, :until =>
> '2010-06-01')
>
>  my_cal = MyCalendar.new_default
>  my_cal.each_day { |date|
>    time = Time.parse(date) # assuming date can be parsed with
> Time.parse
>    puts 'Yay! today is the day!' if r.recurs_on?(time)
>  }

shorter, more efficient example:

   require 'date'

   (Date.civil(2008, 6, 1)..Date.civil(2010, 6, 1)).step(14) do |d|
     puts d
   end

> ** Set-like operations

why? when would you need/want this?

> ** Installation

>  rake gem
>  sudo gem install pkg/recurrence*.gem

you're forgetting about rubyforge. you really should release real gems.

http://www.rubyflow.com/items/666