Iterating between two DateTimes, with a one hour step

Question

I\'m looking for an efficient way, in Ruby 1.9.x/Rails 3.2.x, to iterate between two DateTime objects, with a one-hour step.

(\'2013-01-01\'.to_datetime .. \         


        

Answer 1

Maybe late but, you can do it without Rails, for example to step with hours:

Ruby 2.1.0

require 'time' 

hour_step = (1.to_f/24)

date_time = DateTime.new(2015,4,1,00,00)
date_time_limit = DateTime.new(2015,4,1,6,00)

date_time.step(date_time_limit,hour_step).each{|e| puts e}

2015-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
2015-04-01T01:00:00+00:00
2015-04-01T02:00:00+00:00
2015-04-01T03:00:00+00:00
2015-04-01T04:00:00+00:00
2015-04-01T05:00:00+00:00
2015-04-01T06:00:00+00:00

Or minutes:

#one_minute_step = (1.to_f/24/60)

fifteen_minutes_step = (1.to_f/24/4)

date_time = DateTime.new(2015,4,1,00,00)
date_time_limit = DateTime.new(2015,4,1,00,59)

date_time.step(date_time_limit,fifteen_minutes_step).each{|e| puts e}

2015-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
2015-04-01T00:15:00+00:00
2015-04-01T00:30:00+00:00
2015-04-01T00:45:00+00:00

I hope it helps.