How would you store a business's hours in the db/model of a Rails app?

Question

I\'m creating a Rails app that will store the opening and closing hours for a business. Originally, I thought of simply using a text data type and letting it be free-form:

Answer 1

I would say that Operating Hours belong to a Party Address, and should be represented by an RFC 5455 RRULE and optionally an EXRULE or EXDATEs.

Let's say you have a Party:

"Acme, Inc."

They have one PhysicalAddress:

"123 Main Street, Vancouver"

Their address plays two roles:

"Sales" and "Service"

Sales is open Mo-Sa 10-8 and Service is open Mo-Fr 9-5

These are the RRULES:

(Sales)

startTime:'10:00:00'
endTime:'20:00:00'
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=MO,TU,WE,TH,FR,SA

(Service)

startTime:'09:00:00'
endTime:'17:00:00'
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=MO,TU,WE,TH,FR