Component without recurrence properties should enumerate just itself.

This bug might be a little misleading. The calendar file of French holidays actually has no recurring events. Instead there are multiple individual events for

Easter Monday 2007 Ascension day 2008 New Years day 2007 Fête du Travail (May Day) 2007 Armistice Day (WWII) 2007 Ascension day 2007 Easter Monday 2007 repeated in the file Bastille Day 2007 Feast of the Assumption 2007 etc.

The bug was that the occurrence enumerator was not propertly handing enumerating an event without recurrence rules, or recurrence lists I have changed it so that an component without properties generating recurrences will produce ONE occurrents, i.e. the component itself.

Thanks Rick, the bug is resolved in 0.0.8.

But I still have a problem.
In french calendar, there are some events that repeats, and some that doesn't. For example, the event "Jour de l'an" is daily repeated :

BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20070605T163903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20070606T161656Z
DTSTAMP:20070607T120859Z
UID:c6a930d6-4ed5-45d8-bb3d-d3587a32b8aa
SUMMARY:Jour de l'an
CLASS:PUBLIC
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;TZID=/mozilla.org/20070129_1/Europe/Paris:20070101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE;TZID=/mozilla.org/20070129_1/Europe/Paris:20070102
CATEGORIES:Jours fériés
END:VEVENT

but "Lundi de Pâques" for 2011 isn't :

BEGIN:VEVENT
CREATED:20070607T112742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20070607T115439Z
DTSTAMP:20070607T120859Z
UID:570d9fe7-cdc9-4fdf-9794-909edf520383
SUMMARY:Lundi de Pâques
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE;TZID=/mozilla.org/20070129_1/Europe/Paris:20110425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE;TZID=/mozilla.org/20070129_1/Europe/Paris:20110426
CATEGORIES:Jours fériés
END:VEVENT

I still don't understand how to get all occurrences for one of that events.

To be more precise, I've created a little ics file who only contains 2 events :
- "event1" on the 2009 June 1, never repeated - "event2" on the 2009 June 3, monthly repeated

That file is attached

I suppose that there's a way to obtain an array of cal's events occurrences's dates, but I can't find how.
I mean I'm looking for a way to do :

> cal = RiCal.parse('test.ics')
> occurences1 = cal.first.events.first.occurences(:after => Date.parse('01/01/1990'), :before => Date.parse(01/01/2010))

and get an array that can be parsed with collect{} to obtain an array of Dates :

> occurences1.collect{|o| o[:begin_date]}
=> [#<Date: 01/06/2009>]

> occurences2 = cal.first.events[1].occurences(:after => Date.parse('01/01/1990'), :before => Date.parse(01/01/2010))
> occurences2.collect{|o| o[:begin_date]}
=> [#<Date: 03/06/2009>, #<Date: 03/07/2009>, #<Date: 03/08/2009>, #<Date: 03/09/2009>, #<Date: 03/10/2009>, #<Date: 03/11/2009>, #<Date: 03/12/2009>]

Maybe I am wrong and there's no way to do that ?

Bruno,

I tried to verify your problem, but I'm not sure I understand.

It seems to work except that the second event occurences are getting DateTimes for their dtstart values instead of Dates.

Now I notice that you are thinking that occurrences returns a collection of hashes, it doesn't it returns a collection of components, e.g. Events so you should be using

o.dtstart

instead of

o[:begin_date]

Hi Rick
Thanks for your response. The heart of my problem was that I didn't knew the Event::dtstart() function. Now I'm able to do :

> cal.first.events[1].occurrences(:starting => Date.parse('2009-07-21'), :before => Date.parse('2009-10-21')).collect{|a| a.dtstart.to_s}
=> ["2009-08-03T00:00:00+00:00", "2009-09-03T00:00:00+00:00", "2009-10-03T00:00:00+00:00"]

It's perfect for me.
I can write then a piece of doc to help other people like me who are looking for a way to enumerate all occurences of an event.

Thanks

Perhaps you might consider adding something to the wiki on github under FAQs