IceCube and Rails

If you are using Bundler include ice_cube by adding gem 'ice_cube' to your Gemfile and running bundle install.

Then add include IceCube inside and at the top of your ActiveRecord model file to use the IceCube classes easily.

For example:

class Task < ActiveRecord::Base
  include IceCube

  def schedule
    new_schedule = Schedule.new(start_date)
    new_schedule.add_recurrence_time(Time.now)
    new_schedule.add_exception_time(Time.now + 1.day)
    new_schedule
  end
end

Say you want to save your schedule in an ActiveRecord model with the attribute name 'schedule' using the to_hash rather than the to_yaml serialization you should set up your model like so:

class Task < ActiveRecord::Base
  include IceCube
  serialize :schedule, Hash

  def schedule=(new_schedule)
    write_attribute(:schedule, new_schedule.to_hash)
  end

  def schedule
    Schedule.from_hash(read_attribute(:schedule))
  end
end