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

Rails >= 5.2.3

Date.current.next_occurring(:monday)

https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/DateAndTime/Calculations.html#method-i-next_occurring