What's the best way to model recurring events in a calendar application?

Question

I\'m building a group calendar application that needs to support recurring events, but all the solutions I\'ve come up with to handle these events seem like a hack. I can li

Answer 1

You may want to look at iCalendar software implementations or the standard itself (RFC 2445 RFC 5545). Ones to come to mind quickly are the Mozilla projects http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ A quick search reveals http://icalendar.rubyforge.org/ as well.

Other options can be considered depending on how you're going to store the events. Are you building your own database schema? Using something iCalendar-based, etc.?