What is wday attribute in Ruby?

Overview

In Ruby, the wday attribute is used to get the day of the week. It returns an integer value that represents the day of the week, from 0 to 6. Here 0 represents Sunday.

Syntax

# create time objects
time_now = Time.now # current time
time_five_hours = Time.at(946702800)
time_year_2021 = Time.new(2021) 

def get_weekday(time_obj)
    case time_obj.wday
    when 0
        puts "#{time_obj} is Sunday"
    when 1
        puts "#{time_obj} is Monday"
    when 2 
        puts "#{time_obj} is Tuesday"
    when 3 
        puts "#{time_obj} is Wednesday"
    when 4 
        puts "#{time_obj} is Thursday"
    when 5 
        puts "#{time_obj} is Friday"
    when 6 
        puts "#{time_obj} is Saturday"
    else
        puts "error!"
    end
end

get_weekday(time_now)
get_weekday(time_five_hours)
get_weekday(time_year_2021)

What is wday attribute in Ruby?

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