TimeRange 'this weekend'

Rails
1

How would one calculate ‘this weekend’?

In my event model I have:

def self.dates_for_time_range(range)
case range
when ‘today’ then [Date.today, Date.today]
when ‘tomorrow’ then [Date.tomorrow, Date.tomorrow]
when ‘this_week’ then [Date.today, 1.week.from_now.to_date]
else raise ArgumentError, “Incorrect time range: #{range}”
end
end

Which works perfectly, but trying to figure out what ‘this weekend’
has proven to be a bit more difficult.

2

I’m sure Fred will have a better way of attacking this but something
like this should work:

[(1.week.from_now.beginning_of_week-2.days).to_date,
1.week.from_now.beginning_of_week.to_date]

3

Thanks alot! This works exactly right. I modified the -2 to -3 to
include Friday. This is actually very close to what I had tried, but I
did not have the parenthesis correct. Too bad I wasted a whole day
before trying the forum.

Best regards,

Kyle

4

On 19 May 2008, at 17:24, AndyV wrote:

I’m sure Fred will have a better way of attacking this but something
like this should work:

[(1.week.from_now.beginning_of_week-2.days).to_date,
1.week.from_now.beginning_of_week.to_date]

Well there’s the slightly shorter
[Date::today.monday + 5, Date::today.monday + 7]
(and you don’t have to worry about whether that will do funny things
when the clocks go back and what not).

Fred

5

Probably overkill for this simple question but chronic so cool, I
thought I would mention it. Chronic is an incredible time parsing
library that makes parsing natural languages into time a sinch. ‘next
weekend’ is only the tip of the iceberg.

http://chronic.rubyforge.org/

Chronic.parse(‘tomorrow’)
#=> Mon Aug 28 12:00:00 PDT 2006

Chronic.parse(‘monday’, :context => :past)
#=> Mon Aug 21 12:00:00 PDT 2006