# DayRange(#92) - My solution **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 30, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dayrange-92-my-solution/66994 "2006-08-30T20:25:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rykkers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rykkers)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dayrange-92-my-solution/66994/1 "2006-08-30T20:25:56Z")
I sent this before with a big zipfile attachment including rdoc, and I think that the mailing list rejected it due to the size of the attachment. So I’m sending it again with just the source files. After solving the basic problem in a few minutes, doing the “simplest thing which could possibly work,” I’ve spent my spare time over the last 4 or 5 days letting features, well, creep. I’ve noticed that there are two major styles of quiz respondants, some go for brief code, others go for well-documented code sometimes with lots of new features. I guess I fall into the latter camp. I really used this as an exercise to explore implementing rails-like options parameters. The code is documented, and I’ve included the html output of rdoc in the attached zip file. There’s also a test script. So here’s my solution. A few goodies I’ve added. 1. Rails style options can be used on new, to\_s and a few more. 2. Option to select when the week starts, the ranges produced in to\_s will never span over a week boundary. I just realized that I really should let you specify the start of the week as either a number or a name, but it’s time to lay my cards on the table, so names will have to wait until the next ‘release’ . 3. Option to select a language. English and French are built-in. 4. Support for ad-hoc languages, and adding new languages via a class method, see the rdoc and testcases for examples of how to do this. 5. A DayRange is enumerable and should act like an array containing the day numbers with the week-start fixed as Monday=1, extension to add options are on the ‘roadmap’ 6. Probably some other things I’m overlooking as I type this note. – Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby [http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/](http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/)