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how to get date by day number or day name in rails?

is there a built-in method that give me a date of the day by giving it the day name or number ex: input: Saturday => output: 28-3-2020

Solution

  • Try this

    Date.parse('Saturday').strftime('%d-%-m-%Y')
#=> "28-3-2020"

    From comments, may try this approach to get a week's data

    date_by_day = Date.parse('Saturday')
#=> Sat, 28 Mar 2020

start_date = date_by_day - 7
#=> Sat, 21 Mar 2020

end_date = start_day + 6
#=> Fri, 27 Mar 2020

    Hope that helps!

    It will give you the date of next Saturday.