FinancialYear
A gem tells you what financial year is it now, and also the date range of it
How to use it
PUT this in your Gemfile
gem 'financial_year', '~> 0.1.0'
klass = FinancialYear::FinancialYear.config(
start_month = 4,
start_day = 1,
end_month = 3,
end_day = 31
)
financial_year = klass.for_year(2017)
financial_year.financial_year_range
# expect(instance.financial_year_range).to eq Date.new(2016, 4, 1)..Date.new(2017, 3, 31)
financial_year.ytd_range
# expect(instance.ytd_range).to eq Date.new(2017, 4, 1)..Date.today
# Real life example
today = Date.today
start_last_year = today.month >= FinancialYear.start_month ? today.year - 1 : today.year - 2
# Last financial year
last_year = FinancialYear.for_year(start_last_year).financial_year_range
# This on going financial year
current_year_ytd = FinancialYear.for_year(start_last_year + 1).ytd_range