Ruby gem for working with standard calendar quarters.

Using Bundler:

$ bundle add quarter

Using RubyGems:

$ gem install quarter

require 'quarter'

date = Date.today

quarter = Quarter(date)

p quarter.start_date
p quarter.include?(date)
p quarter.next
p quarter.name
p quarter.to_s
p quarter.iso8601

Include the Quarter::Methods module for methods which can be used to get the quarter for a given year in a manner that resembles written english. For example:

include Quarter::Methods

q1 = Q1 2020

Include the Quarter::Constants module for constants which can be used to get the quarter for a given year in a manner that resembles written english. For example:

include Quarter::Constants

q1 = Q1/2020

q2 = 2020-Q2

Require quarter/yaml for YAML integration which supports dumping and loading quarter objects to and from YAML as scalar values. For example:

require 'quarter/yaml'

puts YAML.dump([Quarter.now])