count issue with hourly and daily rules

[uzaif313]

i follow below process

  schedule=IceCube::Schedule.new(Date.today,end_time:Date.today+13.days)
  schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.daily.day(1,3,5)
  schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.hourly(3).count(4)
  schedule.occurrences(end_time)
  # its show this 

[2017-08-17 00:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-17 03:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-17 06:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-17 09:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-18 00:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-21 00:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-23 00:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-25 00:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-28 00:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-30 00:00:00 +0530]

as above output display correct form of count for 17 but its not display hourly based count for other days

[avit]

This looks correct to me.

its not display hourly based count for other days

You have set hourly(3) = every 3 hours, and count(4) = 4 times only. The 4 hourly occurrences are based on the start time, and then they stop:

[2017-08-17 00:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-17 03:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-17 06:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-17 09:00:00 +0530,

After this, the hourly rule is done because of the count limit, so it does the daily.day(1,3,5) occurrences only.

[uzaif313]

@avit Thanks for response can you tell me how can I repeat count for every occurrence

[avit]

Also, end_time:Date.today+13.days will set the duration (length) of each occurrence, not when the schedule stops repeating. You might want to use until if you want the schedule to stop instead.

how can I repeat count for every occurrence

I don't understand. Can you tell me more exactly what you mean? Maybe give an example of the result you want?

[uzaif313]

Thanks @avit for response

i need something like below occurrence which will repeat daily with hourly rules

 2017-08-17 03:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-17 06:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-17 09:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-18 03:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-18 06:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-18 09:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-19 03:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-19 06:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-19 09:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-20 03:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-20 06:00:00 +0530,
 2017-08-20 09:00:00 +0530,
]

[avit]

You can do it with 3 daily rules:

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.daily.hour_of_day(3)
schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.daily.hour_of_day(6)
schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.daily.hour_of_day(9)

Or 1 hourly rule:

schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.hourly.hour_of_day(3, 6, 9)

The first way is more efficient, but both of these will work.

[uzaif313]

Thanks for response @avit :+1: its really help me. thanks a lot again. can we make above code based on frequency? eg. Daily Tuesday and Friday every 3 hours repeat frequency is 3

[avit]

Yes of course, just add .day(:tuesday, :friday) to the above.

[uzaif313]

:+1:

 schedule = IceCube::Schedule.new(Time.now,end_time:Time.now+12.days+4.hours)
 schedule.add_recurrence_rule IceCube::Rule.daily.day(1,3,5).hour_of_day(3,6,9)
schedule.occurrences(Time.now+13.days)

this can also give occurrence within 3 hours on daily rule

[uzaif313]

hi @avit can we repeat time hourly schedule between start_time and end_time with some frequency eg. we need like this Weekly mondays, tuesday every 2 hours with frequency of 3 so it will give repeat schedule on 3 time in days between start_time and end_time

[uzaif313]

how can i combine multiple rules with add_recurrences_rule method