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= Custom dates with the Ruby Holidays Gem
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It's easy to add your own custom holiday definitions to the Holidays gem. In a nutshell:
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1. Build a definition file
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2. Run a <tt>rake</tt> to make a custom module
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3. <tt>require</tt> your new module
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== Building the YAML file
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Definition files have two main parts: *months* and *methods*. Before you start, you may want to look some of the existing files at http://code.dunae.ca/svn/holidays/trunk/data.
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=== Months
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Holidays are grouped by month from 1 through 12. Each entry within a month can have several fields.
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[<tt>name</tt>] The name of the holiday.
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[<tt>regions</tt>] One or more region codes.
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===== Dates defined by a fixed date (e.g. January 1st)
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[<tt>wday</tt>] Integer representing day of the month (1 through 31).
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For example, the following holiday is on the first of the month and available in the <tt>ca</tt>, <tt>us</tt> and <tt>au</tt> regions.
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- name: New Year's Day
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regions: [ca,us,au]
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mday: 1
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===== Dates defined by a week number (e.g. first Monday of a month)
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[<tt>wday</tt>] Integer representing day of the week (0 = Sunday through 6 = Saturday).
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[<tt>week</tt>] Integer representing week number (1 = first week, 3 = third week, -1 = last week),
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For example, the following holiday is on the first Monday of the month and available in the <tt>ca</tt> region.
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- name: Labour Day
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regions: [ca]
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week: 1
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wday: 1
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=== Calculating dates with methods
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In addition to defining holidays by day or week, you can create custom methods to calculate a date.
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For example, Canada celebrates Victoria Day, which falls on the Monday on or before May 24. So, under the <tt>methods</tt> section we could create a custom method that returns a Date object.
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methods:
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ca_victoria_day: |
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def self.ca_victoria_day(year)
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date = Date.civil(year,5,24)
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if date.wday > 1
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date -= (date.wday - 1)
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elsif date.wday == 0
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date -= 6
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end
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date
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end
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This would be represented in the <tt>months</tt> section as:
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5:
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- name: Victoria Day
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regions: [ca]
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function: lambda { |year| ca_victoria_day(year) }
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Functions called in this manner must return either a Date object or an integer representing the day of the month.
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== Building the definition module
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Once you have your YAML definition file you need to generate a Ruby module using <tt>rake</tt>.
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To build the module for school holidays
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rake generate Custom custom.yaml
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Your module can include definitions from multiple YAML files.
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rake generate Custom ca.yaml us.yaml mx.yaml custom.yaml
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Your custom module is ready to use.
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require 'holidays'
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require 'path/to/custom'
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Holidays.by_day(date, :your_region)
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=== Sharing
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If you've built a definition file that others might enjoy, why not share it?
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Send any definition files to 'code' at 'dunae.ca'.
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