acts_as_span

ActiveRecord model w/ a start_date and an end_date == ActsAsSpan

Treat those date spans like the objects they are!

Getting Started

In your Gemfile:

    gem 'acts_as_span'

In your model:

    class SpanRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
      acts_as_span
    end

Ransack

The status scopes' symbols (e.g. :current, :current_on, :expired) are public:

    SpanRecord.span_scopes
    # => [:current, :current_on, :expired, ...]

To use these alongside ransack, add them to your ransackable_scopes as needed:

    class SpanRecord
      acts_as_span
      # ...

      def self.ransackable_scopes
        [:my_scope_1, :my_scope_2] + span_scopes
      end
    end

End Date Propagator

This gem also comes with a service object, ActsAsSpan::EndDatePropagator. Specific usage details are documented in the source code (lib/acts_as_span/end_date_propagator.rb), but for the sake of reference:

Usage

To recursively propagate end dates to applicable child records:

ActsAsSpan::EndDatePropagator.call(
  object,                                 # The object to propagate from
  skipped_classes: [ClassOne, ClassTwo],  # Record types to skip (see below)
)

where skipped_classes is an array of classes that act as span, but should not be propagated to.

Any ActiveRecord errors encountered during propagation will be added to object's errors.

Propagation Logic

• A record that acts_as_span will propagate its end date if...
  1. The record acts_as_span
  2. The end date of its default span is changed (using ActiveRecord::Base#changed?)
  3. The new end date is not nil
• A record will be propagated to if...
  1. The record acts_as_span
  2. The record's default span's end date is nil or after the source record's new end date
  3. The record's class is not among skipped_classes
  4. The propagating object is associated with the record via a has_many relationship with the dependent option set to destroy or delete.

To overwrite what records should be propagated to, override should_propagate_to? and children. To overwrite when records should propagate their end date, override should_propagate_from?.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011-2021 Annkissam. See LICENSE for details.