A Ruby on Rails gem that provides methods to work with ‘weekdays’ (ie. 5.weekdays_ago)

If you’re still stuck in Rails 2x land, please use the 1.0 release, otherwise you’ll get some crazy stack overflow errors.

weekdays extends Rails’ Date, Time, DateTime, and Numeric ActiveSupport Core Extensions and gives you a handful of helpful methods that calculate spans of weekdays.

This gem ;)

sudo gem install weekdays --source 'http://gemcutter.com'

Then add it to your environment.rb:

config.gem “weekdays”

You can now do cool things like:

Date.today.weekday? # => true
5.weekdays_ago # => Tue Mar 24 10:46:42 -0400 2009
11.weekdays_from_now # => Wed Apr 15 10:46:54 -0400 2009
20.weekdays_from(Date.yesterday) # => Mon, 27 Apr 2009
Date.today.weekdays_until(Date.tomorrow) # => 1

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