How to know if today's date is in a date range?

Question

I have an event with start_time and end_time and want to check if the event is \"in progress\". That would be to check if today\'s date is in the r

Answer 1

Because the date class includes the Comparable module, every date object has a between? method.

require 'date'

today           = Date.today
tomorrow        = today + 1
one_month_later = today >> 1

tomorrow.between?(today, one_month_later) # => true

Answer 2

If they're timestamps:

def in_progress?
  (start_time..end_time).include?(Time.now)
end