I have an interesting use case where I'm making a GraphQL API for creating recurring background jobs. Rather than have to dangerously exec Ruby syntax for setting durations like 1.month I discovered that the ISO8601 spec has support for Durations. For example P1M is equivalent to 1.month. This PR adds support for this syntax in addition to ActiveSupport::Duration and integers. It uses the built-in support for ISO Duration parsing available with ActiveSupport::Duration.parse
I just do a simple regex check that the run_every object is a String starting with a P and let the parser take it from there. If there are any syntax errors they will be found by the AS::Duration parser.
I didn't add any specs because I didn't know if this was something the maintainers would even be interested in supporting. If so, let me know and I'll add specs and update the docs!
I have an interesting use case where I'm making a GraphQL API for creating recurring background jobs. Rather than have to dangerously exec Ruby syntax for setting durations like
1.monthI discovered that the ISO8601 spec has support for Durations. For exampleP1Mis equivalent to1.month. This PR adds support for this syntax in addition to ActiveSupport::Duration and integers. It uses the built-in support for ISO Duration parsing available withActiveSupport::Duration.parseI just do a simple regex check that the
run_everyobject is a String starting with aPand let the parser take it from there. If there are any syntax errors they will be found by the AS::Duration parser.I didn't add any specs because I didn't know if this was something the maintainers would even be interested in supporting. If so, let me know and I'll add specs and update the docs!