how can I make sure a day is a weekday in Rails?

ruby-on-rails weekday
Satchel picture Satchel · Oct 4, 2010 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I have a message substitution called next_week which basically takes Date.today + 7.days.

However, although I still want to send emails on weekends, if the next_week falls on a weekend, I want it to know this and push to the Monday.

How do i do this?

Answer

Marcin Urbanski picture Marcin Urbanski · Jun 21, 2016

Rails 5:

date.on_weekend?
date.on_weekday?

Rails 4:

date.saturday? || date.sunday?

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