I’m creating a calendar of sorts which maps events.
For each event, I know its start and end date/time. I also know the
current date and time. What I need to be able to do is calculate the
start of the week, regardless of the day of the week.
So, if it is Wednesday and I want to populate my Calendar from Monday -
Sunday with the events, I need to know the date of Monday to start. To
compare absolute days I’ve converted them to Ruby epoch with the idea of
comparing each day (84600 seconds) versus the end date. If the day is
greater than the end date, I then check the hours of the day to see on
what hour the event occurred.
It sounds convoluted, but I’m not sure of a better method.
Code:
This is wrong in that I’m using Date.today.to_time.to_i, rather than the
date of the Monday of the week.
<% for j in 0…6 do %>
<%# check date first if we are past day, then check
hour%>
<% for i in 0…23 do %>
<%=h i %>:00 |
<% if (j * 86400) + Date.today.to_time.to_i >
(@lab.end_date.to_time.to_i + ((@lab.end_time.strftime("%M").to_i) *
3600)
+ ((@lab.end_time.strftime("%S").to_i) *
60)) %>
<% if i >
@lab.end_time.strftime("%M").to_i # because db stores the hour in minute
field (as pulled by ruby) use %M %>
Available |
<% else %>
Checked Out |
<% end %>
<% end %>
<% else %>
Checked Out |
<% end %>
<% end %>
Tyler K. wrote:
I’m creating a calendar of sorts which maps events.
For each event, I know its start and end date/time. I also know the
current date and time. What I need to be able to do is calculate the
start of the week, regardless of the day of the week.
So, if it is Wednesday and I want to populate my Calendar from Monday -
Sunday with the events, I need to know the date of Monday to start. To
compare absolute days I’ve converted them to Ruby epoch with the idea of
comparing each day (84600 seconds) versus the end date. If the day is
greater than the end date, I then check the hours of the day to see on
what hour the event occurred.
The code posted is wrong (pulled from a backup file), but I think I see
a way to address the problem. If I know the current day of the week, I
can find Monday and subtract off for each day of the week past Monday.
I just needed to walk away from the problem for a bit to figure it out.
Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but if you wanted to find
the prev Mon and next Sun for some given date/time for use in querying/
comparing, you could do something like:
$ irb
t_now = Time.now
=> Wed May 20 17:50:56 -0700 2009
t_prev_mon_begin = t_now - (t_now.wday-1)246060 - t_now.hour6060 - t_now.min60 - t_now.sec
=> Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009
t_next_sun_end = t_prev_mon_begin + 72460*60 - 1
=> Sun May 24 23:59:59 -0700 2009
Jeff
On May 20, 4:55 pm, Tyler K. [email protected]
On May 20, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Tyler K. wrote:
To
compare absolute days I’ve converted them to Ruby epoch with the
idea of
comparing each day (84600 seconds) versus the end date. If the day is
greater than the end date, I then check the hours of the day to see on
what hour the event occurred.
Why won’t this work?
t = Time.now
=> Wed May 20 18:23:37 -0700 2009
t.beginning_of_week
=> Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009
There are all kinds of fun methods in the Time class…
t.beginning_of_day
=> Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009
t.end_of_day
=> Wed May 20 23:59:59 -0700 2009
t.tomorrow
=> Thu May 21 18:23:37 -0700 2009
t.yesterday
=> Tue May 19 18:23:37 -0700 2009
t.beginning_of_month
=> Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009
t.last_month
=> Mon Apr 20 18:23:37 -0700 2009
The one thing to double check is that at least at one point the
“month” methods were 30-day based…
-philip
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Rob B.
[email protected] wrote:
You can look at the next_week method
http://www.railsbrain.com/api/rails-2.3.2/doc/index.html?a=M001363&name=next_week
and then back off a week. You could also take the code and create your
own method like the beginning_of_week if it doesn’t already do exactly
what you want.
Well since this is the Rails forum and not the Ruby forum,
Time#beginning_of_week is already defined in ActiveSupport.
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On May 21, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote:
exactly
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I guess I didn’t make my point very well. (Even I can’t see it from
what I actually wrote.)
The Time#next_week in ActiveSupport lets you specify the day that
starts the week while Time#beginning_of_week always goes back to
Monday. My reference to Time#beginning_of_week was perhaps a bit too
implicit and I suppose I was relying on the clairvoyance of the OP for
the point about choosing when the “week” begins.
-Rob
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You can look at the next_week method
http://www.railsbrain.com/api/rails-2.3.2/doc/index.html?a=M001363&name=next_week
and then back off a week. You could also take the code and create your
own method like the beginning_of_week if it doesn’t already do exactly
what you want.
-Rob
On May 20, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Philip H. wrote:
what hour the event occurred.
t.last_month
It sounds convoluted, but I’m not sure of a better method.
<% for i in 0…23 do %>
@lab.end_time.strftime(“%M”).to_i # because db stores the hour in
<% end %>
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