ruby: how to get day of the week for a given date

Question

Dear all,

How to get weekday for a given date
i.e. if we give Date.now how to get the weekday i.e. monday.....sunday

Answer 1

It's ok I got it

Solution:

require 'date'

d = Date.today
weekday = Date.parse( '#{d.day} #{d.month} #{d.year}' )
####******* or for custom date pass -> Date.parse('3rd Feb 2001') ********
puts weekday.strftime('%A')

Output:
Monday