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 integer value of the day of the week, and use it as you see fit.

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 from a date or a time.

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 returns for the number of the day in the week. a.wday # => 2

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 (Time.now.utc - 7.hours).midnight + 7.hours end

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 and could care less about what day of that month, there's easier and more simplistic ways to get it. –

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 minus is interpreted as a prefix to the 1 (and thus is parsed as the number -1). This interpretation is possible and doesn't throw any errors because of two properties of ruby:

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. – Andrew France

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.

Nov 11, 2008 · require 'date' class Time def to_datetime # Convert seconds + microseconds into a fractional number of seconds seconds = sec + Rational(usec, 10**6) # Convert a UTC offset measured in minutes to one measured in a # fraction of a day.

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 + n.minutes # you can use 1.minute Date.today + n.hours # you can use 1.hour Date.today + n.days # you can use 1.day Date.today + n.weeks # you can use 1.week Date.today + n.months # you can use 1.month Date.today + n.years # you can ...