Rails: Is there away to get the Date object that is the closest Monday to today?

Question

Given a date, how do I find the nearest Monday in Rails?

I know I can do things like:

Date.tomorrow Date.today

Is there something like Date.nearest :mond

Answer 1

I know this is an old thread but it's always nice to keep it current for future seekers.

Let's assume today is say Friday the 19th of August. All I do to get my nearest Monday is this:

monday = Date.today.monday

Then from there you can go back a week or forward a week like this:

last_monday = monday.last_week
next_monday = monday.next_week