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Ruby gem for matching available slots (time slots are also supported)

Introduction

One of the classic programming problems is the determination of time slot availability. Very often this is used within scheduling / calendar programs. SlotMachine is a very small Ruby gem which can do the job for you. It does not only focuses on time slots, but also slots in general.

Installation

Add SlotMachine to your Gemfile

gem "slot_machine"

Install the gem dependencies

$ bundle

Usage

SlotMachine::Slot module

The core implementation of SlotMachine is written in SlotMachine::Slot. A module which has to be included within a Ruby class. SlotMachine provides the classes Slot and TimeSlot of which Slot is defined as follows:

class Slot
  include SlotMachine::Slot
end

Clean and simple. Cool, huh? TimeSlot also includes the SlotMachine::Slot module and overrides a few methods to provide time slot specific behaviour.

Slot

SlotMachine is pretty straightforward. A slot consists of a start and an end (integer) value. You can define a slot as follows:

[1] pry(main)> s = Slot.new 0..20
=> #<Slot @start=0 @end=20>
[2] pry(main)> s.start
=> 0
[3] pry(main)> s.end
=> 20

After having defined a slot, you can match available slots within that slot. Let's say that you want to calculate available slots with a length of 10:

[4] pry(main)> s.match 10
=> [#<Slot @start=0 @end=10>, #<Slot @start=10 @end=20>]

The match method returns an array with the available slots. At default, the Slot searches for slots with an interval size of 10 and thus 0..10 and 10..20 are matched.

You can change the interval by passing it as a second argument. Using an interval size of 2:

[5] pry(main)> s.match 10, 2
=> [#<Slot @start=0 @end=10>,
 #<Slot @start=2 @end=12>,
 #<Slot @start=4 @end=14>,
 #<Slot @start=6 @end=16>,
 #<Slot @start=8 @end=18>,
 #<Slot @start=10 @end=20>]

You can also match a slot with another slot instance. This returns the slot in which both slots overlap each other:

[5] pry(main)> s.match 15..30 #=> you can also use: s.match Slot.new(15..30)
=> [#<Slot @start=15 @end=20>]
[6] s.match Slot.new(21..30) #=> no overlap
=> []

TimeSlot

The TimeSlot class is (of course) similar to the Slot class, but accepts military times (e.g. 1300 for 1:00 pm). In other words, it only counts from 0 untill 59 within a 0 to 99 range. Also, the default interval size is 15.

An example:

[1] pry(main)> ts = TimeSlot.new 1015..1045
=> #<TimeSlot @start=1015 @end=1045>
[2] pry(main)> ts.match 10
=> [#<TimeSlot @start=1015 @end=1025>, #<TimeSlot @start=1030 @end=1040>]
[3] pry(main)> ts.match 10, 5
=> [#<TimeSlot @start=1015 @end=1025>,
 #<TimeSlot @start=1020 @end=1030>,
 #<TimeSlot @start=1025 @end=1035>,
 #<TimeSlot @start=1030 @end=1040>,
 #<TimeSlot @start=1035 @end=1045>]
[4] pry(main)> ts.match 1038..1100 #=> you can also use: ts.match TimeSlot.new(1038..1100)
=> [#<TimeSlot @start=1038 @end=1045>]

Using the console

The SlotMachine repo is provided with script/console which you can use for development / testing purposes.

Run the following command in your console:

$ script/console
Loading development environment (SlotMachine 0.1.0)
[1] pry(main)> s = Slot.new 0..25
=> #<Slot @start=0 @end=25>
[2] pry(main)> s.match 15
=> [#<Slot @start=0 @end=15>, #<Slot @start=10 @end=25>]
[3] pry(main)> s.match 10, 4
=> [#<Slot @start=0 @end=10>,
 #<Slot @start=4 @end=14>,
 #<Slot @start=8 @end=18>,
 #<Slot @start=12 @end=22>]
[4] pry(main)> ts = TimeSlot.new 1015..1045
=> #<TimeSlot @start=1015 @end=1045>
[5] pry(main)> ts.match 10
=> [#<TimeSlot @start=1015 @end=1025>, #<TimeSlot @start=1030 @end=1040>]
[6] pry(main)> ts.match 10, 5
=> [#<TimeSlot @start=1015 @end=1025>,
 #<TimeSlot @start=1020 @end=1030>,
 #<TimeSlot @start=1025 @end=1035>,
 #<TimeSlot @start=1030 @end=1040>,
 #<TimeSlot @start=1035 @end=1045>]

Testing

Run the following command for testing:

$ rake

You can also run a single test file:

$ ruby test/unit/test_time_slot.rb

Closing words

Well that's about it! Pretty straightforward, right? Have fun playing with the SlotMachine! ^^

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Contact me

For support, remarks and requests, please mail me at paul.engel@holder.nl.

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Paul Engel, released under the MIT license

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