Iterate every month with date objects

Question

So I have two ruby Date objects, and I want to iterate them every month. For example if I have Date.new(2008, 12) and Date.new(2009, 3), it would yield me 2008-12, 2009-1, 2009-

Answer 1

MonthRange.new(date1..date2).each { |month| ... }
MonthRange.new(date1..date2).map { |month| ... }

You can use all the Enumerable methods if you use this iterator class. I make it handle strings too so that it can take form inputs.

# Iterate over months in a range
class MonthRange
  include Enumerable

  def initialize(range)
    @start_date = range.first
    @end_date   = range.last
    @start_date = Date.parse(@start_date) unless @start_date.respond_to? :month
    @end_date   = Date.parse(@end_date) unless @end_date.respond_to? :month
  end

  def each
    current_month = @start_date.beginning_of_month
    while current_month <= @end_date do
      yield current_month
      current_month = (current_month + 1.month).beginning_of_month
    end
  end
end