MeetingScheduler

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Technical Exercise

Your product owner is asking you to implement a new feature in the calendar system that is in your scheduling tool. The feature needs to support arranging a set of meetings within an 8 hour day in a way that makes them work, and let the user know if the meetings cannot fit into the day.

For this feature there will be two kinds of meetings, on-site meetings and off-site meetings. On-site meetings can be scheduled back to back with no gaps in between them, but off-site meetings must have 30 minutes of travel time padded to either end. This travel time however can overlap for back to back off-site meetings, and can extend past the start and end of the day.

Given a set of meetings (below is an example of a set of meetings):

[
{ name: 'Meeting 1', duration: 3, type: :onsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 2', duration: 2, type: :offsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 3', duration: 1, type: :offsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 4', duration: 0.5, type: :onsite }
]

You must write code to determine if these meetings can fit into a 9 to 5 schedule, and propose a layout for those meetings in a format like this:

9:00 - 12:00 - Meeting 1
12:00 - 12:30 - Meeting 4
1:00 - 3:00 - Meeting 2
3:30 - 4:30 - Meeting 3

Here are a few example sets for you to test against:

Example 1:

[
{ name: 'Meeting 1', duration: 1.5, type: :onsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 2', duration: 2, type: :offsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 3', duration: 1, type: :onsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 4', duration: 1, type: :offsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 5', duration: 1, type: :offsite },
]

Yes, can fit. One possible solution would be:
9:00 - 10:30 - Meeting 1
10:30 - 11:30 - Meeting 3
12:00 - 1:00 - Meeting 5
1:30 - 2:30 - Meeting 4
3:00 - 5:00 - Meeting 2

Example 2:

[
{ name: “Meeting 1”, duration: 4, type: :offsite },
{ name: “Meeting 2”, duration: 4, type: :offsite }
]

No, can’t fit.

Example 3:

[
{ name: 'Meeting 1', duration: 0.5, type: :offsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 2', duration: 0.5, type: :onsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 3', duration: 2.5, type: :offsite },
{ name: 'Meeting 4', duration: 3, type: :onsite }
]

Yes, can fit. One possible solution would be:
9:00 - 9:30 - Meeting 2
10:00 - 10:30 - Meeting 1
11:00 - 2:00 - Meeting 4

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

$ git clone git@github.com:desoleary/meeting-scheduler.git
$ cd meeting-scheduler
$ bundle install
$ bin/rspec

Console

run irb -r ./dev/setup for an interactive prompt.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/meeting_scheduler. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

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

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the MeetingScheduler project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.

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