DateRange

Ruby port of Perl's Date::Range which makes it easy to work with a range of dates.

This is faster than working with Ruby's built in support for using Dates with Ranges because it just compares the start and end dates rather than converting the whole range to an enumerable.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'date-range', require: 'date_range'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install date-range

Usage

require 'date_range'

range = DateRange.new(date1, date2);

if range.include?(date3)
  # ...
end

if range.include?(range2)
  # ...
end

if range.overlaps(range2)
  range3 = range.overlap(range2)
end

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/chrismytton/date_range.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.