Get an array including every 14th day from a specific date
In ruby, how can I get every 14th day of the year going back and forth from the date.
So consider that I was billed for 2 weeks of recycling today, 6-16-2015. How can I get an array of each billing day for recycling this year based on that date.
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Ninjaxor
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Date has a step method :
require 'date'
d = Date.strptime("6-16-2015", '%m-%d-%Y') # strange date format
end_year = Date.new(d.year, -1, -1)
p d.step(end_year, 14).to_a
# =>[#<Date: 2015-06-16 ((2457190j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>, #<Date: 2015-06-30 ((2457204j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>, ...
# Going backward:
begin_year = Date.new(d.year, 1, 1)
p d.step(begin_year,-14).to_a
# =>[#<Date: 2015-06-16 ((2457190j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>, #<Date: 2015-06-02 ((2457176j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,...
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steenslag
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You can do it like this:
require 'date'
date_str = "6-16-2015"
d = Date.strptime(date_str, '%m-%d-%Y')
f = Date.new(d.year)
((f + (f-d).abs % 14)..Date.new(d.year,-1,-1)).step(14).to_a
#=> [#<Date: 2015-01-13 ((2457036j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,
# #<Date: 2015-01-27 ((2457050j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,
# ...
# #<Date: 2015-06-16 ((2457190j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,
# ...
# #<Date: 2015-12-29 ((2457386j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>]
Based on the second sentence of your question, I am assuming that you just want an array of all dates in a given year that are two weeks apart and include the given day.
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Cary swoveland
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More detailed and understandable solution:
require 'date'
current_date = Date.parse "16-june-15"
start_date = Date.parse '1-jan-15'
end_date = Date.parse '31-dec-15'
interval = 14
result = current_date.step(start_date, -interval).to_a
result.sort!.pop
result += current_date.step(end_date, interval).to_a
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I tried a math approach, which was unexpectedly confusing.
require 'date'
a_recycle_date_string = "6-17-2015"
interval = 14
a_recycle_date = Date.strptime(a_recycle_date_string, '%m-%d-%Y')
current_year = a_recycle_date.year
end_of_year = Date.new(current_year, -1, -1)
# Find out which index of the first interval days is the first recycle day
# of the year the (1 indexed)
remainder = (a_recycle_date.yday) % interval
# => 0
# make sure remainder 0 is treated as interval-1 so it doesn't louse
# the equation up
n_days_from_first_recycling_yday_of_year = (remainder - 1) % interval
first_recycle_date_this_year = Date.new(current_year,
1,
1 + n_days_from_first_recycling_yday_of_year)
first_recycle_date_this_year.step(end_of_year, interval).to_a
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