Simple solution to such questions as "What date is next Monday?"
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'what_date'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install what_date
You can query the date of any day in the current week, the previous week or the following week. You can supply a date so the query is relative to the week of the given date
## initialize client
$client = WhatDate.client
## get dates
client.friday
client.tuesday(Date.new(2018,2,3)) ##date of tuesday in the week of the given date
client.prev_tuesday ## same as client.last_tuesday
client.next_tuesday
client.next_tuesday Date.new(2018,2,3) ## the following tuesday after the week of the given date
You can also ask for the date of a particular day of a given month. Use ordinals such as first, second and up to fifth. You can enquire the last date too.
client.first_monday_of_june_2018
##4 June 2018
client.third_tuesday_of_may_2018
##19 June 2018
client.last_monday_of_may_2018
##28 May 2018
## default to current year
## Date.today.year == 2018
client.last_monday_of_may
##28 May 2018
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/what_date.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.