Ruby: How to store and display a day of the week?

Question

I\'m relatively new to Ruby. I need to keep track of a day of the week on my activity model. The code that I have so far doesn\'t seem like the most elegant solution. I am w

Answer 1

Ruby's Date class already has a constant defined that holds the name of the days in an array: Date::DAYNAMES.

For example, you could do something like:

days = []
Date::DAYNAMES.each_with_index { |x, i| days << [x, i] }

I don't know if I'd necessarily say that this is better, but you can definitely leverage what is already available to you.