RoR repeated events

Question

I have:

scaffold EventGroup name:string description:text event_quantity:integer
scaffold Event event_name:string starts_at:datetime ends_at:datetime event_group:references

Dependencies:

EventGroup has_many: events
Event belongs_to: event_group

How can I schedule repeating events for event_group [every friday and sunday, 4 times]? Any ideas?...

I don't understand your question. Would you please clarify? What does "set a repeating picker schedule for events" mean? What have you tried so far? — jvillian, Mar 01 '16 at 15:04
Still not clear, I'm afraid. Do you mean you automatically want to create 8 events for an event_group object? — SteveTurczyn, Mar 01 '16 at 15:14
Ideally, only set `starts_at` rules => create X events that belong to event_group. (X=event_quantity, is set in event_group model — Yshmarov, Mar 02 '16 at 10:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '16 at 15:31

iCalendar provides standards for capturing event repeat rules (see here). There are many examples, including one similar to yours:

Weekly on Tuesday and Thursday for 5 weeks:

DTSTART;TZID=US-Eastern:19970902T090000 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=19971007T000000Z;WKST=SU;BYDAY=TU,TH

or

RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;COUNT=10;WKST=SU;BYDAY=TU,TH

That's just for capturing the rule. How you capture it (what your UI looks like) and how you use it are entirely different topics.

When you say, "How can I schedule repeating events", that sounds like a much broader question.

RoR repeated events

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