Ruby, check if date is a weekend?

Question

I have a DailyQuote model in my rails application which has a date and price for a stock. Data in the database has been captured for this model

Answer 1

The simplest approach:

today = Date.today

if today.saturday? || today.sunday? 
  puts "Today is a weekend!"
end

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You can also do this for any other day of the week. Ruby is fantastic and offers a lot of cool methods like this. I suggest when you get stumped take a look at what's available to the class by running .methods on it. So if you run Date.today.methods you will see these available.