class Rufus::CronLine


(man 5 crontab) file line.
A ‘cron line’ is a line in the sense of a crontab

def date_match?(date)

def date_match?(date)
  return false unless sub_match?(date.day, @days)
  return false unless sub_match?(date.month, @months)
  return false unless sub_match?(date.wday, @weekdays)
  true
end

def initialize (line)

def initialize (line)
  super()
  @original = line
  items = line.split
  unless items.length == 5 or items.length == 6
    raise(
      "cron '#{line}' string should hold 5 or 6 items, not #{items.length}")
  end
  offset = items.length - 5
  @seconds = offset == 1 ? parse_item(items[0], 0, 59) : [ 0 ]
  @minutes = parse_item(items[0 + offset], 0, 59)
  @hours = parse_item(items[1 + offset], 0, 24)
  @days = parse_item(items[2 + offset], 1, 31)
  @months = parse_item(items[3 + offset], 1, 12)
  @weekdays = parse_weekdays(items[4 + offset])
end

def matches? (time)


Returns true if the given time matches this cron line.
def matches? (time)
  time = Time.at(time) unless time.kind_of?(Time)
  return false unless sub_match?(time.sec, @seconds)
  return false unless sub_match?(time.min, @minutes)
  return false unless sub_match?(time.hour, @hours)
  return false unless sub_match?(time.day, @days)
  return false unless sub_match?(time.month, @months)
  return false unless sub_match?(time.wday, @weekdays)
  true
end

def next_time (time=Time.now)


(Thanks to K Liu for the note and the examples)

=> Fri Oct 24 02:30:00 -0500 2008
>> Rufus::CronLine.new('30 7 * * *').next_time( Time.utc(2008,10,24,7,29) ).localtime

=> Fri Oct 24 07:30:00 UTC 2008
>> Rufus::CronLine.new('30 7 * * *').next_time( Time.utc(2008,10,24,7,29) )

=> Fri Oct 24 07:30:00 -0500 2008
>> Rufus::CronLine.new('30 7 * * *').next_time( Time.mktime(2008,10,24,7,29) )

Time.now))
be passed if no start time is specified (search start time set to
the given start point Time (thus a result in the local time zone will
Note that the time instance returned will be in the same time zone that

for the 'search'. By default, it's Time.now
This method accepts an optional Time parameter. It's the starting point

This is raw, 3 secs to iterate over 1 year on my macbook :( brutal.

Returns the next time that this cron line is supposed to 'fire'
def next_time (time=Time.now)
  time -= time.usec * 1e-6
  time += 1
  loop do
    unless date_match?(time)
      time += (24 - time.hour) * 3600 - time.min * 60 - time.sec
      next
    end
    unless sub_match?(time.hour, @hours)
      time += (60 - time.min) * 60 - time.sec
      next
    end
    unless sub_match?(time.min, @minutes)
      time += 60 - time.sec
      next
    end
    unless sub_match?(time.sec, @seconds)
      time += 1
      next
    end
    break
  end
  time
end

def parse_item (item, min, max)

def parse_item (item, min, max)
  return nil if item == '*'
  return parse_list(item, min, max) if item.index(',')
  return parse_range(item, min, max) if item.index('*') or item.index('-')
  i = Integer(item)
  i = min if i < min
  i = max if i > max
  [ i ]
end

def parse_list (item, min, max)

def parse_list (item, min, max)
  item.split(',').inject([]) { |r, i|
    r.push(parse_range(i, min, max))
  }.flatten
end

def parse_range (item, min, max)

def parse_range (item, min, max)
  i = item.index('-')
  j = item.index('/')
  return item.to_i if (not i and not j)
  inc = j ? Integer(item[j+1..-1]) : 1
  istart = -1
  iend = -1
  if i
    istart = Integer(item[0..i - 1])
    if j
      iend = Integer(item[i + 1..j])
    else
      iend = Integer(item[i + 1..-1])
    end
  else # case */x
    istart = min
    iend = max
  end
  istart = min if istart < min
  iend = max if iend > max
  result = []
  value = istart
  loop do
    result << value
    value = value + inc
    break if value > iend
  end
  result
end

def parse_weekdays (item)

def parse_weekdays (item)
  item = item.downcase
  WDS.each_with_index { |day, index| item = item.gsub(day, index.to_s) }
  r = parse_item(item, 0, 7)
  r.is_a?(Array) ?
    r.collect { |e| e == 7 ? 0 : e }.uniq :
    r
end

def sub_match?(value, values)

def sub_match?(value, values)
  values.nil? || values.include?(value)
end

def to_array


This method is used by the cronline unit tests.
months, weekdays).
Returns an array of 6 arrays (seconds, minutes, hours, days,
def to_array
  [ @seconds, @minutes, @hours, @days, @months, @weekdays ]
end