When I've done this sort of thing in the past I've used a time unit key and an integer representing quantity. Thus you'd have quantity as 2 and time unit key as 'year' then you simply send the time unit key as a message to the fixnum. Ie quantity.send(time_unit_key) and rails built in time helper type extensions reply with an appropriate value when added to time objects etc.
Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/ Learn: http://sensei.zenunit.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/random8r On 04/05/2009, at 10:16 PM, "tashfeen.ekram" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am currently representing the reminder in my database as seperate > fields; one for hour and minute then if needed one for the day and > month if the type of reminder requires it. The reminders can be a > daily one, weekly, or monthly. > > So. if the reminder is a daily one then all i will need is the hour > and minute > > if it is weekly, i need hour, minute, and day > > if it is monthly, i need hour, minute, day, and which week (first, > second, third, etc) > > i am trying to figure out how to best store this information in my > database. i have stored each serately for the time being. can i store > it as datetime and then just use portions of datetime that i need? > > thanks, > tashfeen > > > On Apr 5, 7:42 pm, "tashfeen.ekram" <[email protected]> wrote: >> That is great. >> >> I would like to use Runt and represent the object the object in a >> database when i need it for future use. Any suggestions on how to >> represent this? There are only a finite number of things i need to be >> able to account for and not the full possibilities offered by the >> gem. >> >> On Mar 29, 10:58 pm, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>>> I was hoping to get some advice on something I am trying to build. >> >>>> I want to be able to allow users to be able to set up reminders. >>>> They >>>> will be allowed to choose to have reminders either once a day (or >>>> more >>>> than once) at particular times, reminders every other day, every >>>> wednsday, etc all though at specific times of the day (for >>>> example a >>>> reminder at 9AM every Tuesday). I would like to have some sort of >>>> cron job running to check what reminders need to be sent. I was >>>> hoping >>>> to get advice on what plugins might be useful and any othe advice >>>> on >>>> setting this up. still learning the ropes of rails. :) >> >>> You might find these useful... >> >>> http://runt.rubyforge.org/Runtisan implementation of select >>> temporal patterns >> >>> http://chronic.rubyforge.org/Chronicisa natural language date/time >>> parser written in pure Ruby.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
