Scheduling Recurring Events with Ice Cube Gem

Ice_cube is a ruby library for effectively taking care of repeated events (schedules). The force lies in the ability to indicate multiple rules, and have ice_cube rapidly make sense of whether the schedule falls on a specific date (.occurs_on?), or what times it happens at (.occurrences, .first, .all_occurrences).

How to get ice cube

For install use the below syntax

gem install

if you want to get the code

gem clone git://github.com/seejohnrun/ice_cube

For creating icecube schedule

schedule = IceCube::Schedule.new
if we want to speciy startdate and enddate we have option to specify in the above mentioned schedule

schedule = IceCube::Schedule.new(start = Time.now, :end_time => start + 600)

Daily schedules

After creating schedule we have an option to add recurrence rule for the above mentioned schedule

consider “schedule every day” on above mentioned time

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.daily

consider the same schedule with repeat “n” number of days

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.daily(repeat_every_n_days)

in place of repeat_every_n_days you have option to specify the number of days

Weekly schedules

Recurring rule to generate weekly schedule

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.weekly

recurring rule to add repeat n number of weeks with the same schedule

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.weekly(repeat_every_n_weeks)

Consider an example repeat the schedule on only week days (monday to friday)

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.weekly.day(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Every other week on monday and tuesday

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.weekly(2).day(:monday, :tuesday)
or you can mention as

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.weekly(2).day(:monday, :tuesday)

Monthly schedules

repeat the same schedule on every month

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.montly

Monthly schedules(by day of Month)
every month on the first and last days of the month

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.monthly.day_of_month(1, -1)

every other month on the 15th of the month

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.monthly(2).day_of_month(15)

Monthly (by day of Nth week)

# every month on the first and last tuesdays of the month

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.monthly.day_of_week(:tuesday => [1, -1])

# every other month on the first monday and last tuesday

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.monthly(2).day_of_week(:monday => [1],:tuesday => [-1])

Yearly(by day of year)

# every year on the 100th days from the beginning and end of the year

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.yearly.day_of_year(100, -100)

# every fourth year on new year’s eve

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.yearly(4).day_of_year(-1)

Yearly (by month of year)

# every year on the same day as start_time but in january and february

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.yearly.month_of_year(:january, :februrary)

# every third year in march

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.yearly(3).month_of_year(:march)

# for programatic convenience (same as above)

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.yearly(3).month_of_year(3)

Hourly (by hour of day)

# every hour on the same minute and second as start date

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.hourly

# every other hour, on mondays

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.hourly(2).day(:monday)
Minutely (every N minutes)

# every 10 minutes

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.minutely(10)

# every hour and a half, on the last tuesday of the month

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.minutely(90).day_of_week(:tuesday => [-1])

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