From: David Rio Deiros <driodeiros@...>
Date: 2008-12-10T14:06:52+09:00
Subject: Re: how to find whether a day, is weekend

On Wed 10.Dec'08 at 13:37:28 +0900, Srikanth Jeeva wrote:
> hi, can any one give me the idea.,
> how to find whether a given date is a weekend, that is saturday or
> sunday.
> is there any inbuilt methods or we have to write the code.

What about ... ?

  require 'date'

  class Date
    def weekend?
      self.wday == 0 || self.wday == 6
    end
  end

  d1 = "9 December 2008"
  d2 = "13 December 2008"

  p Date.parse(d1).weekend? # false
  p Date.parse(d2).weekend? # true

-drd