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sergserg
sergserg

Reputation: 22254

How can I get the 15th and last day of each month?

I'm using Ruby and Ruby on Rails 4.

I'd like get the dates for the 15th and last day of each month for the next two months.

start_date = Time.now
mid_month = start_date.15th.day.of.month
last_day_of_month = start.last.day.of.month

What's the easiest way to accomplish this using Ruby or Rails?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2845

Answers (5)

Bogdan Agafonov
Bogdan Agafonov

Reputation: 157

Here's some more:

    start_date == Date.today

    beginning = start_date.beginning_of_month
    middle = beginning.advance(weeks:2)
    end = start_date.end_of_month

Looks more human readable.

All these methods available from ActiveSupport class extensions, so you have to include it if not using Rails

Upvotes: 1

Michael Durrant
Michael Durrant

Reputation: 96484

For the NEXT two months:

start_date = Date.today

[1..2].each do |month_add|
  mid_month  = (start_date + month_add.month).beginning_of_month + 14
  end_month  = (start_date + month_add.month).end_of_month
  puts 'Month: #{month_add}'
  puts "Mid Month "+mid_month
  puts "End Month "+end_month
end

Upvotes: 1

admpsktt
admpsktt

Reputation: 302

I'm not sure if this will work with Rails 4:

start_date = Date.today
  # => Wed, 06 Nov 2013
mid_month  = (start_date + 1.month).beginning_of_month + 14
  # => Sun, 15 Dec 2013
end_month  = (start_date + 1.month).end_of_month
  # => Tue, 31 Dec 2013

Upvotes: 10

Arup Rakshit
Arup Rakshit

Reputation: 118271

I think something below you are looking for :

require 'date'

d = Date.today
start_date = d-d.mday
p date_15 = start_date.next_day(15)
# => #<Date: 2013-11-15 ((2456612j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
p date_last = d.next_month - d.mday
# => #<Date: 2013-11-30 ((2456627j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>

Upvotes: 2

hirolau
hirolau

Reputation: 13901

There might be some easier way, but this comes to my mind:

require 'Date'

start_date   = Date.today
mid_month    = Date.new(start_date.year, start_date.month, 15)
end_of_month = Date.new(start_date.year, start_date.month+1, 1)-1
#or
end_of_month = Date.new(start_date.year, start_date.month, 1).next_month.prev_day

Upvotes: 0

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