Ruby Holidays Gem¶ ↑
A set of functions to deal with holidays in Ruby.
Extends Ruby’s built-in Date class and supports custom holiday definition lists.
Installation¶ ↑
To install the gem from RubyGems:
gem install holidays
Examples¶ ↑
For more information, see the notes at the top of the Holidays module.
Using the Holidays class¶ ↑
Get all holidays on April 25, 2008 in Australia.
date = Date.civil(2008,4,25)
Holidays.on(date, :au)
=> [{:name => 'ANZAC Day',...}]
Get holidays that are observed on July 2, 2007 in British Columbia, Canada.
date = Date.civil(2007,7,2)
Holidays.on(date, :ca_bc, :observed)
=> [{:name => 'Canada Day',...}]
Get all holidays in July, 2008 in Canada and the US.
from = Date.civil(2008,7,1)
to = Date.civil(2008,7,31)
Holidays.between(from, to, :ca, :us)
=> [{:name => 'Canada Day',...}
{:name => 'Independence Day',...}]
Get informal holidays in February.
from = Date.civil(2008,2,1)
to = Date.civil(2008,2,15)
Holidays.between(from, to)
=> [{:name => 'Valentine\'s Day',...}]
Extending Ruby’s Date class¶ ↑
Check which holidays occur in Iceland on January 1, 2008.
d = Date.civil(2008,7,1)
d.holidays(:is)
=> [{:name => 'Nýársdagur'}...]
Lookup Canada Day in different regions.
d = Date.civil(2008,7,1) d.holiday?(:ca) # Canada => true d.holiday?(:ca_bc) # British Columbia, Canada => true d.holiday?(:fr) # France => false
Credits and code¶ ↑
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Source: github.com/alexdunae/holidays
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Contributors: github.com/alexdunae/holidays/contributors
Started by Alex Dunae (dunae.ca, e-mail ‘code’ at the same domain), 2007-11.
Made on Vancouver Island.