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

Untested, so you might need to finetune, but here you go:

def Date.nearest_monday
  today = Date.today
  wday  = today.wday
  if wday > 4 # over the half of the week
    today + (7 - wday) # next monday
  else
    today - (1 + wday) # previous monday
  end
end