Ruby code to get the date of next Monday (or any day of the week)

Question

Given an input of, for example,

day = \'Monday\'

how can I calculate the date of day?

def date_of_next(day)
           


        

Answer 1

For anyone like me who came here looking for a solution in Rails to this problem, as of Rails 5.2 there is a much easier method to do this.

For anyone (like the original poster) not specifically using Rails, this functionality is available in the ActiveSupport gem.

To find the next occurring day of a week, we can simply write something like Date.today.next_occurring(:friday).

See the documentation for more details.