A set of functions to deal with holidays in Ruby.
Extends Ruby's built-in Date class and supports custom holiday definition lists.
To install the gem from RubyGems:
gem install holidays
This gem is tested with the following ruby versions: 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, JRuby
This gem follows semantic versioning. The guarantee specifically covers:
- methods in the topmost
Holidaysnamespace e.g.Holidays.<method> - the core extension
Please note that we consider definition changes to be 'minor' bumps, meaning they are backwards compatible with your code but might give different holiday results!
Time zones are ignored. This library assumes that all dates are within the same time zone.
Get all holidays on April 25, 2008 in Australia.
date = Date.civil(2008,4,25)
Holidays.on(date, :au)
=> [{:name => 'ANZAC Day',...}]
Get holidays that are observed on July 2, 2007 in British Columbia, Canada.
date = Date.civil(2007,7,2)
Holidays.on(date, :ca_bc, :observed)
=> [{:name => 'Canada Day',...}]
Get all holidays in July, 2008 in Canada and the US.
from = Date.civil(2008,7,1)
to = Date.civil(2008,7,31)
Holidays.between(from, to, :ca, :us)
=> [{:name => 'Canada Day',...}
{:name => 'Independence Day',...}]
Get all US Federal holidays between 2018 and 2019.
from = Date.civil(2018,1,1)
to = Date.civil(2019,12,31)
Holidays.between(from, to, :federal_reserve, :observed)
=> [{:name => "New Year's Day"....}
{:name => "Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr"....}]
Get informal holidays in February.
from = Date.civil(2008,2,1)
to = Date.civil(2008,2,15)
Holidays.between(from, to, :informal)
=> [{:name => 'Valentine\'s Day',...}]
Return all available regions:
Holidays.available_regions
=> [:ar, :at, ..., :sg] # this will be a big array
To check if there are any holidays taking place during a specified work week:
Holidays.any_holidays_during_work_week?(Date.civil(2016, 1, 1))
=> true
To find and return the next holidays occurring from date, inclusively:
Holidays.next_holidays(3, [:us, :informal], Date.civil(2016, 2, 23))
=> [{:name => "St. Patrick's Day",...}, {:name => "Good Friday",...}, {:name => "Easter Sunday",...}]
Will default to Date.today if no date is provided.
To find all holidays occuring from date to end of year, inclusively:
Holidays.year_holidays([:ca_on], Date.civil(2016, 2, 23))
=> [{:name=>"Good Friday",...},
{name=>"Easter Sunday",...},
{:name=>"Victoria Day",...},
{:name=>"Canada Day",...},
{:name=>"Civic Holiday",...},
{:name=>"Labour Day",...},
{:name=>"Thanksgiving",...},
{:name=>"Remembrance Day",...},
{:name=>"Christmas Day",...},
{:name=>"Boxing Day",...}]
Will default to Date.today if no date is provided.
Load custom definitions file on the fly and use them immediately.
Load custom 'Company Founding' holiday on June 1st:
Holidays.load_custom('/home/user/holiday_definitions/custom_holidays.yaml')
date = Date.civil(2013,6,1)
Holidays.on(date, :my_custom_region)
=> [{:name => 'Company Founding',...}]
Custom definition files must match the format of the existing definition YAML files location in the 'definitions' directory.
Multiple files can also be passed:
Holidays.load_custom('/home/user/holidays/custom_holidays1.yaml', '/home/user/holidays/custom_holidays2.yaml')
To extend the 'Date' class:
require 'holidays/core_extensions/date'
class Date
include Holidays::CoreExtensions::Date
end
Now you can check which holidays occur in Iceland on January 1, 2008:
d = Date.civil(2008,7,1)
d.holidays(:is)
=> [{:name => 'Nýársdagur'}...]
Or lookup Canada Day in different regions:
d = Date.civil(2008,7,1)
d.holiday?(:ca) # Canada
=> true
d.holiday?(:ca_bc) # British Columbia, Canada
=> true
d.holiday?(:fr) # France
=> false
Or return the new date based on the options:
d = Date.civil(2008,7,1)
d.change(:year => 2016, :month => 1, :day => 1)
=> #<Date: 2016-01-01 ((2457389j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
Or you can calculate the day of the month:
Date.calculate_mday(2015, 4, :first, 2)
=> 7
Or find end of month for given date (requires 'Time' extensions as well):
d = Date.civil(2016,8,1)
d.end_of_month
=> #<Date: 2016-08-31 ((2457632j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
If you are checking holidays regularly you can cache your results for improved performance. Run this before looking up a holiday (eg. in an initializer):
Holidays.cache_between(Time.now, 2.years.from_now, :ca, :us, :observed)
Holidays for the regions specified within the dates specified will be pre-calculated and stored in-memory. Future lookups will be much faster.
See our contribution guidelines for information on how to help out!
- Started by @alexdunae 2007-2012
- Maintained by @hahahana, 2013
- Maintained by @ppeble, 2014-present
- Maintained by @ttwo32, 2016-present
Plus all of these wonderful contributors!