Rails 3 Finding day of week

Question

I\'m trying to make my own calendar because i cant seem to get any help with event calendar so what im trying to do is Display the day of the week ie.. January 1 2011 is a S

Answer 1

Actively using in Rails 4 - should in most other versions as well...

Both of these options will give you the day string (eg. "Saturday") for the date specified:

Specific date:

Date.new(2011, 1, 1).strftime('%A') # returns "Saturday"

Today:

Date.today.strftime('%A')