From: sabbyxtabby@... (Sabby and Tabby)
Date: 2003-11-28T01:42:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Time#succ ?

"Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@ngdc.noaa.gov> wrote:

> anyone familiar with the 'jot' unix program?  i think ranges should work like
> that - eg. one should be able to define the increment
> 
> day = 60 * 60 * 24
> 
> a = Time.now
> b = Time.now + (7 * day) 
> 
> week = (a...b)
> 
> week.each(step = day) do |weekday|
>   ...
> end

Maybe Range#step:

  day = 60*60*24
  a = Time.now
  b = a + 7 * day

  (a..b).step(day) {|t| puts t}

Unfortunately:

  ./gem:20:in `step': cannot iterate from Time (TypeError)

A work-around:

  a = Time.now.to_i
  b = a + 7 * day

  (a..b).step(day) {|t| puts Time.at(t)}