Ruby/ice_cube: Exclude whole day for hourly recurring event - ruby

Question

Just started playing around with ice_cube I've got a weekly schedule (with a granularity of half an hour) created
schedule = IceCube::Schedule.new(Time.now.change(:min => 30))
with several rules (let's say 20) such as e.g.
IceCube::Rule.weekly.day(:tuesday).hour_of_day(14).minute_of_hour(30)
or
IceCube::Rule.weekly.day(:wednesday).hour_of_day(10).minute_of_hour(0)
Now I'd like to exclude a full day, which would subsequently exclude all occurrences during this full day.
I've tried
schedule.add_exception_date [DATE]
but it seems that my exception has to match the event exactly.
Is there a way to get this done without looping through all rules and creating exception for the exact times for the date specified?
Update:
To make a better example:
Weekly schedule:
* Every monday at 14:40
* Every monday at 15:00
* Every thursday at 16:00
* Every saturday at 10:00
Exception date:
Tuesday, 13th of September 2011
=> For the week from Monday 12th to Sunday 18th I'd like to get only the occurrences on Thursday and Saturday.
One solution could look something like this, but it's a little icky:
schedule = IceCube::Schedule.from_yaml([PERSISTED SCHEDULE])
occurrences = schedule.occurrences_between([START TIME], [END TIME])
exceptions = schedule.exdates.map(&:to_date)
occurrences.reject {|occurrence|
exceptions.include?(occurrence.to_date)
}
—Any better ideas?

Answer 1

Since there seems to be no other solution and in order to close this question, here’s what I'm using (as described in an update to the original question above already):
schedule = IceCube::Schedule.from_yaml([PERSISTED SCHEDULE])
occurrences = schedule.occurrences_between([START TIME], [END TIME])
exceptions = schedule.exdates.map(&:to_date)
occurrences.reject {|occurrence|
exceptions.include?(occurrence.to_date)
}