How to know if today or a Time Object is Sunday in Ruby

Overview

We use the sunday? method to learn if today or a time object is Sunday or represents Sunday. The method returns a Boolean value true or false. If the time object is Sunday, true is returned. Otherwise, false.

Syntax

t_o.sunday?
Syntax to Check if Today is Sunday

Parameters

t_o: This is the time object we want to check for representing Sunday.

Return value

The value returned is a Boolean value. If the time object is Sunday, true will be returned. Otherwise, false will be returned.

Code example

# create time objects
t1 = Time.now  # current time
t2 = Time.new(1990)
t3 = Time.new(1990, 4, 1) # sunday in 1998
t4 = Time.new()
# call the "sunday?" method
# and print result
puts t1.sunday?  
puts t2.sunday?  
puts t3.sunday?  
puts t4.sunday?

Explanation

  • line 2-5: We create time objects using the Time.now or the Time.new() methods.
  • line 9-12: We use the sunday? method to check if the time objects we create are actually Sunday or not. Then we printed the results.

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