weekdays

A Ruby on Rails gem that provides methods to work with ‘weekdays’ (ie. 5.weekdays_ago)

1.0.1+ is Rails3 Only!

If you’re still stuck in Rails 2x land, please use the 1.0 release, otherwise you’ll get some crazy stack overflow errors.

What it does

weekdays extends Rails’ Date, Time, DateTime, and Numeric ActiveSupport Core Extensions and gives you a handful of helpful methods that calculate spans of weekdays.

Requirements

This gem ;)

How to Install

sudo gem install weekdays --source 'http://gemcutter.com'

Then add it to your environment.rb:

config.gem “weekdays”

How to Use

You can now do cool things like:

Date.today.weekday? # => true
5.weekdays_ago # => Tue Mar 24 10:46:42 -0400 2009
11.weekdays_from_now # => Wed Apr 15 10:46:54 -0400 2009
20.weekdays_from(Date.yesterday) # => Mon, 27 Apr 2009
Date.today.weekdays_until(Date.tomorrow) # => 1

About the Author

My name is Matt Darby. I’m an IT Manager and pro-web-dev at for Dynamix Engineering and hold a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Franklin University in sunny Columbus, OH.

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