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

Checkout these libraries for handling recurring dates.

Once the recurrence is setup in an object say office_hours, in ice_cube you can query it as:

office_hours.occurring_at?(Time.now)