Problem with date.succ

Ruby
1

I’m having difficulty with a small program I’m writing dealing with
dates. I’ve written the calendar class below. It works just fine
when calling getMonth for all months EXCEPT NOVEMBER. Interrupting
the call while in irb shows that it is busy in the reduce method of
Rational, called from Date. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Russ

require ‘date’
class Calendar
def initialize(year=Date.today.year)
@year = year
end

def getMonth(mo)
dt = Date.new(@year, mo, 1)
i = dt.month
list = Array.new
while i != (mo+1) % 12
wk = getWeek(dt.month, dt.day)
dt = wk[6].succ
i = dt.month
list.push(wk)
end
list
end

def getWeek(mo, dy)
dt = Date.new(@year, mo, dy)
dt -= dt.wday
list = Array.new
for i in 0…6
list.push dt
dt = dt.succ
end
list
end

def getDay(mo, dy)
Date.new(@year, mo, dy)
end
end

2 
 dt = Date.new(@year, mo, 1)

next_month = mo % 12 + 1
while i != next_month

and at least the loop should work as you expect.

Regards,
Pit

Pit,
Thank-you very much. Can’t believe I didn’t see that mistake.

Any idea why ruby’s date class needs to use rational numbers, though?
Every time I’d get into the loop and break out in irb, I’d see a stack
trace pointing to rational.rb…

Russ

3

Russ P. schrieb:

 i = dt.month

(…)
Russ, for November, “mo” is 11, and “(mo+1) % 12” is zero, but
“dt.month” and “i” are always in the range (1…12), so you’ve got an
endless loop. Replace the line

while i != (mo+1) % 12

with

next_month = mo % 12 + 1
while i != next_month

and at least the loop should work as you expect.

Regards,
Pit

4

On 8/15/06, Russ P. [email protected] wrote:

Any idea why ruby’s date class needs to use rational numbers, though?
Every time I’d get into the loop and break out in irb, I’d see a stack
trace pointing to rational.rb…

Because the Date is stored as Astronomical Julian Date number
(whatever it is, see lib/date.rb comments and source) and the
conversion somehow needs it. NB: Due to this, I obtained a decent
speedup by caching Date object instead of creating them each time
anew.