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gem install time_frame

You can create a TimeFrame instance by specifying min and max

time_frame = TimeFrame.new(min: Time.now, max: Time.now + 1.day)

or just by specifying a min and duration

time_frame = TimeFrame.new(min: Time.now, duration: 1.day)

###Important: TimeFrame doesn't support Date class.

Create a time frame instance from today with duration of 1 day

time_frame = TimeFrame.new(min: Time.now, duration: 1.day)
# => 2014-05-07 14:58:47 +0200..2014-05-08 14:58:47 +0200

Get the duration

time_frame.duration
# => 86400.0 seconds

Shift the whole time frame by... let's say... 2 days!

later = time_frame.shift_by(2.days)
# => 2014-05-09 14:58:47 +0200..2014-05-10 14:58:47 +0200

Shifting can also be done in the other direction...

earlier = time_frame.shift_by(-2.days)
# => 2014-05-05 14:58:47 +0200..2014-05-06 14:58:47 +0200

Is another time covered by our time frame?

my_time = Time.new(2014, 5, 7, 16)
time_frame.cover?(my_time)
# => true

Shifting to another time... duration remains:

time_frame.shift_to(Time.new(2016, 1, 1))
# => 2016-01-01 00:00:00 +0100..2016-01-02 00:00:00 +0100

Checking whether another time frame overlaps:

other_frame = TimeFrame.new(
  min: time_frame.min - 3.days,
  max: time_frame.min + 40.minutes
)
time_frame.overlaps?(other_frame)
# => true

Time frame without another time frame:

time_frame = TimeFrame.new(min: Time.new(2014, 5, 12), duration: 1.day)
other = TimeFrame.new(min: Time.new(2014, 5, 12, 19), duration: 10.minutes)
time_frame.without(other)
# [2014-05-12 00:00:00 +0200..2014-05-12 19:00:00 +0200,
#  2014-05-12 19:10:00 +0200..2014-05-13 00:00:00 +0200]

You can also use without with many TimeFrame's:

another = other.shift_by(15.minutes)
time_frame.without(other, another)
# [2014-05-12 00:00:00 +0200..2014-05-12 19:00:00 +0200,
#  2014-05-12 19:10:00 +0200..2014-05-12 19:15:00 +0200,
#  2014-05-12 19:25:00 +0200..2014-05-13 00:00:00 +0200]

Use of the mathematical &. The intersection is returned:

time_frame = TimeFrame.new(min: Time.new(2014), duration: 1.day)
other_time_frame = time_frame.shift_by(12.hours)
time_frame & other_time_frame
# => 2014-01-01 12:00:00 +0100..2014-01-02 00:00:00 +0100

These are the most common functionalities of the TimeFrame class, but there is quite more to discover. If you have an array of time frames, you can compute their union and pairwise intersection using TimeFrame.union and TimeFrame.intersection. For two sorted arrays of time frames, you can traverse all overlaps of time frames in the first array with time frames in the second array in linear time using TimeFrame.each_overlap.

# each_overlap in a real life sample:

husband_at_home = [
  TimeFrame.new(min: Time.new(2014, 2, 1), duration: 2.days),
  TimeFrame.new(min: Time.new(2014, 5, 1), duration: 4.days),
  TimeFrame.new(min: Time.new(2014, 7, 1), duration: 10.days)
]

mother_in_law_visits = [
  TimeFrame.new(min: Time.new(2014, 2, 2), duration: 1.days),
  TimeFrame.new(min: Time.new(2014, 7, 3), duration: 2.days)
]

TimeFrame.each_overlap(mother_in_law_visits, husband_at_home) do |overlap|
  puts "Houston... we have a problem... from #{overlap.min} to #{overlap.max}"
end

No. Ruby's Range class is multi-purpose, it can hold contiuous values (like floats), as well as discrete values (like integers) and behaves differently according to their type. Instance methods like #each or #size just don't make sense for time values, the same is true for all methods provided by the Enumerable mixin.

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