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Mcalendar Gem Version

Ruby monthly calendar, output to console and pdf.
This calendar includes Japanese holidays.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mcalendar'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mcalendar

Usage

If you want to create a calendar for this month.

When you run the command, the calendar appears on the console. The pdf file is created in the current directory.

mcalendar

Output to console and pdf.

      September 2021
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
             1   2   3   4
 5   6   7   8   9  10  11
12  13  14  15  16  17  18
19  20  21  22  23  24  25
26  27  28  29  30

Calendar for any month.

mcalendar 2021/02

Output to console and pdf.

>mcalendar 2021/02
       February 2021
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
     1   2   3   4   5   6
 7   8   9  10  11  12  13
14  15  16  17  18  19  20
21  22  23  24  25  26  27
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Output only PDF, use the -p option.

mcalendar 2021/02 -p

Also, If you want to output only console, use the -c option.

mcalendar 2021/02 -c

The default PDF file name is calendar.pdf. You can specify any name using the -n option.

mcalendar 2021/02 -n my_calendar.pdf

Configure mcalendar schedule

mcalendar reads ~/.mcalendar.yml or mcalendar.yml in the current working directory as mcalendar's schedule file. It can contain the following settings:

  • holiday
  • anniversary

Here is the included mcalendar.yml as a sample.

mcalendar.yml

holiday:
  20210101: New Year's Day
  20210111: Coming-of-age Day
  20210211: National Foundation Day
  20210223: Emperor's Birthday
  20210320: Vernal Equinox Day
  20210429: Showa Day
  20210503: Constitution Memorial Day
  20210504: Greenery Day
  20210505: Children's Day
  20210722: Marine Day
  20210723: Sports Day
  20210808: Mountain Day
  20210809: Substitute Holiday
  20210920: Respect for the Aged Day
  20210923: Autumnal Equinox Day
  20211103: Culture Day
  20211123: Labour Thanksgiving Day

anniversary:
  20210224: Ruby's Birthday
  20210909: RubyKaigi Takeout 2021
  20210910: RubyKaigi Takeout 2021
  20210911: RubyKaigi Takeout 2021

You can use the command option -y or --holidays to check the contents of mcalendar.yml.

>mcalendar --holidays
=========== Holidays ===========
20210101: New Year's Day
20210111: Coming-of-age Day
20210211: National Foundation Day
20210223: Emperor's Birthday
20210320: Vernal Equinox Day
20210429: Showa Day
20210503: Constitution Memorial Day
20210504: Greenery Day
20210505: Children's Day
20210722: Marine Day
20210723: Sports Day
20210808: Mountain Day
20210809: Substitute Holiday
20210920: Respect for the Aged Day
20210923: Autumnal Equinox Day
20211103: Culture Day
20211123: Labour Thanksgiving Day
======== Anniversaries =========
20210224: Ruby's Birthday
20210909: RubyKaigi Takeout 2021
20210910: RubyKaigi Takeout 2021
20210911: RubyKaigi Takeout 2021

You can also use the command option -f or --config= to load your own your_schedule.yml file.

>mcalendar -f your_schedule.yml

How many Sundays are there this month? Use the command option -w, You can easily know this answer.

>mcalendar -w

Number of days for each day of the week in August 2022
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Sun. 4 days. =>  7,14,21,28
Mon. 5 days. =>  1, 8,15,22,29
Tue. 5 days. =>  2, 9,16,23,30
Wed. 5 days. =>  3,10,17,24,31
Thu. 4 days. =>  4,11,18,25
Fri. 4 days. =>  5,12,19,26
Sat. 4 days. =>  6,13,20,27

Show help

>mcalendar --help
Usage: mcalendar [options]
    -v, --version                    Show version
    -p, --pdf                        output pdf
    -n, --name=NAME                  output pdf name
    -c, --console                    output console
    -f, --config=FILE                Use YAML format file.
    -y, --holidays                   Display holidays and anniversaries in YAML file
    -w, --wday                       Number of days for each day of the week in this month

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.