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

So I just found out ice_cube can handle recurring durations:

> schedule = IceCube::Schedule.new(Time.now, :duration => 3600)
> schedule.add_recurrence_rule Rule.daily
> schedule.occurs_at?(Time.now + 1000)
true
> schedule.occurs_at?(Time.now + 1.day + 1000)
true
> schedule.occurs_at?(Time.now + 4000)
false

I suspect that you can handle a lot of different situations using ice_cube in this manner.

Incidentally, I'm implementing a similar open/closed business schedule. I'd be interested to know how you've done it, and if you have a github repo we can collaborate on together.