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

If you are using rails you can use Date.today.sunday for Sunday or Date.today.monday for Monday. And then Date.today.sunday - 1.day for Saturday etc.