how to exclude from counting holidays in rails4 - ruby

Question

I am trying to make an app for vacation requests but i am facing a problem.I have e model called VacationRequest and a view of VacationRequest where the result will be shown.
VacationRequest.rb model
def skip_holidays
count1 = 0
special_days = Date.parse("2017-05-09", "2017-05-12")
special_days.each do |sd|
if ((start_data..end_data) === sd)
numero = (end_data - start_data).to_i
numro1 = numero - sd
else
numero = (end_data - start_data).to_i
end
end
end
VacationRequest show.htm.erb
here i called the method from model
#vacation_request.skip_holidays
this is showing errors and is not working. Please help me with that!

Answer 1

My approach to this would be the following:
def skip_holidays
special_days = ["2017-05-09", "2017-05-12"].map(&:to_date)
accepted_days = []
refused_days = []
(start_data..end_data).each do |requested_date|
accepted_days << requested_date unless special_days.include?(requested_date)
refused_days << requested_date if special_days.include?(requested_date)
end
accepted_day_count = accepted_days.count
refused_days_count = refused_days.count
end
This way you iterated over all requested dates (the range), checked if the date is a special day - If so, refuse it, otherwise accept it.
In the end you can display statistics about accepted and refused dates.

Answer 2

You cannot create a date range by passing multiple argument to the constructor. Instead call the constructor twice to create a range:
special_days = Date.parse("2017-05-09") .. Date.parse("2017-05-12")
Or if instead you want only the two dates, do:
special_days = ["2017-05-09", "2017-05-12"].map &:to_date

Answer 3

This Date.parse("2017-05-09", "2017-05-12") don`t create a range, only return the first params parsed:
#irb
Date.parse("2017-05-09", "2017-05-12")
=> Tue, 09 May 2017
You can do it this way:
initial = Date.parse("2017-05-09")
final = Date.parse("2017-05-12")
((initial)..final).each do |date|
#rules here.
end