Weekday Calculator

It provides constant time nth-weekday calculation from a given date.

It also produces an array of every nth weekday in a date range.

Installation

Make sure gemcutter.org is one of your gem sources, then run:

gem install weekday_calculator

Usage

Values returned are Date instances.

nth weekday from a date

3 weekdays from now:

date = Date.parse("Jan 1, 2009")
WeekdayCalculator.nth_weekday(3, date) #=> Jan 6, 2009

Every nth weekday

Every 5th weekday between two dates:

start  = Date.parse("Jan 1, 2009")
finish = Date.parse("Jan 20, 2009")
WeekdayCalculator.every_nth_weekday(5, start, finish) #=> [Jan 8, 2009, Jan 15, 2009]    

Author

Brandon Keene

Contributors

Pat Nakajima