Jun 4, 2019 · Once you have a date object, you can simply do dateObj.strftime('%A') for the full day, or dateObj.strftime('%a') for the abbreviated day. You can also use dateObj.wday for the …

Ruby supports date arithmetic in the Date and DateTime classes, which are part of Ruby's standard library. Both those classes expose #+ and #- methods, which add and subtract days …

Mar 31, 2015 · How can I get the name of the day in Ruby? For eg. something like that: a = Date.today a.day_name # => Tuesday the only thing I could find was .wday but that only …

Nov 3, 2011 · Not sure if this helps, but this gets me the time at which my Google API quotas reset: # The most recent midnight in California in UTC time def last_california_midnight …

Dec 11, 2013 · Date.today -1.day Date.today -5.days are actually direct method calls on the Date.today method and are thus equivalent to. Date.today( (-1).day ) This is because the …

Dec 21, 2008 · This is strange to me, but it works if you what you really want is the last day of the previous month or the first day of the next month. If all you want is the previous or next month …

Dec 21, 2010 · This uses a Modified Julian Day Number. From wikipedia : The Julian date (JD) is the interval of time in days and fractions of a day since January 1, 4713 BC Greenwich noon, …

Aug 31, 2009 · In Rails there are very useful methods of Fixnum class for this (here n is Fixnum.For example: 1,2,3.... Date.today + n.seconds # you can use 1.second Date.today + …

Apr 1, 2012 · Get week day name in Ruby. 1. Changing a string with a date into a format to get the day of the week. 5.

Mar 2, 2012 · As far as I can tell the behaviour remains the same in all recent versions of Ruby and ActiveSupport, include 2.0 and 4.1.0 respectively. Time objects do return seconds though. …