Week of month

Week of month is a gem which extends Date and Time class with useful methods. Among accurately displaying the days of the week in the form of a calendar arrangement, this gem will also provide you with tools for identifying which week of the month a particular date lies.

Getting Started

Week of month is released as a Ruby Gem. The gem is to be installed within a Ruby on Rails application. To install, simply add the following to your Gemfile:

gem 'week_of_month'

Run bundle install and don’t forget to restart your server after it.

You can also install this gem from the command line as:

gem install 'week_of_month'

New! Configure week start day!

include this line inside your application.rb:

WeekOfMonth.configuration.monday_active = true

This will do all manipulations considering Monday as the first day of the week.

Usage

Return the days of the month as if they were displayed on a calendar. In this example, the first day of January starts on a Sunday. Note the format is always (year, month, day)

Date.new(2012,1,1).week_split

=begin
    [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],
    [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14],
    [15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21],
    [22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28],
    [29, 30, 31]]
=end

Return the total number of weeks in a month.

Date.new(2012,1,31).total_weeks
# => 5

Return what number week in the month a specific date lies. Can also return the number in english.

Date.new(2012,1,31).week_of_month
# => 5

Date.new(2012,1,31).week_of_month_in_eng
# => "Fifth"

Return true if date lies in the first week of a month, otherwise false will be returned. Also works with second week and last week.

Date.new(2012,1,1).first_week?
# => true

Date.new(2012,1,9).second_week?
# => true

Date.new(2012,1,31).last_week?
# => true

Returns the month for the specified date.

Date.new(2012,1,1).name_of_month
# => "January"

Return true if date lies in the month of which the method is called, otherwise false will be returned (works for all months).

Date.new(2012,1,1).january?
# => true

Date.new(2012,1,9).august?
# => false

Date.new(2012,12,25).december?
# => true

Return the number of days in a given month (regardless of selected day).

Date.new(2012,1,1).last_day_of_month
# => 31

Date.new(2012,2,9).last_day_of_month
# => 29

Return the dates for which the day of the method falls (works for all days).

Date.new(2012,1,1).all_mondays_in_month
# => [2, 9, 16, 23, 30]

Return the day of the week for the specified date.

Date.new(2012,1,1).name_of_week_day
# => "Sunday"

Returns true if date falls on Monday through Friday, else returns false.

Date.new(2012,1,1).working_day?
# => false

Date.new(2012,2,3).working_day?
# => true

Returns true if date falls on Saturday or Sunday, else returns false.

Date.new(2012,1,1).week_end?
# => true

Date.new(2012,2,3).week_end?
# => false

Tools Being Used

We believe strongly in not writing code unless we have to, so Week of month is built using:

Ruby Date Class
Ruby Time Class

Version History

1.2.5

Methods beginning_of_week and end_of_week renamed to starting_of_week and ending_of_week.

1.2.1

Support for Time class

Methods Added:

name_of_week_day, name_of_month, week_end?, working_day?, all_sundays_in_month, all_mondays_in_month, all_tuesdays_in_month, all_wednesdays_in_month, all_thursdays_in_month, all_fridays_in_month, all_saturdays_in_month

1.1.0

ActiveSupport Dependency removed

Methods Added:

january?, february?, march?, april?, may?, june?, july?, august?, september?, october?, november?, december?, last_day_of_month

Contributing to Week of month

Fork, fix, then send me a pull request, and most importantly add yourself to a list of authors in a gemspec file.

License

MIT