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Request for RRULE validity checker

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
backend

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating the library's existing RRULE parsing and expansion entry points, then determine how invalid rules are currently handled. Done means a clearly defined validator API distinguishes valid and invalid RRULE strings, with tests covering the examples and relevant malformed inputs.

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Description

Hey guys, would love it if there was a utility method in this library to check the validity of an rrule.

e.g.
RruleValidator.validate("FREQ=DAILY;INTERVAL=1") => true
RruleValidator.validate("FREQ=SNAILY;INTERVAL=toucan_sam") => false

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