Recurring Events in Calendar - Rails

Question

I am searching for the best way to model recurring events. I am using fullcalendar to display events. But I guess recurring events are best handled on the rails backend.

Answer 1

I m quite new to Rails, your solution sounds interesting. To create the schedule and associated occurences, do you use conditionnal callbacks in Event model?

In my case, users would be able to create events, weekly recurring or not. So I was thinking about a recurring boolean field in event model. So I guess you would have a first callback to create the schedule:

before_save :create_weekly_schedule, if: :recurring

and basically a second one to create the occurences:

after_save :create_occurences_if_recurring

def create_occurences_if_recurring
  schedules.each do |sched|
    occurences.create(start_date: sched.start_time, end_date: sched.end_time)
  end
end

Does this sound logical with your solution? Thx