Get week day name in Ruby

Question

How can I get the name of the day in Ruby?

For eg. something like that:

a = Date.today
a.day_name
# => Tuesday

the only thing I could find was .wday but that only returns for the number of the day in the week

a.wday
# => 2

Answer 1

Time.now.strftime("%A")
# => "Tuesday"

or

Date.today.strftime("%A")
# => "Tuesday"

Weekday:
  %A - The full weekday name (``Sunday'')
          %^A  uppercased (``SUNDAY'')
  %a - The abbreviated name (``Sun'')
          %^a  uppercased (``SUN'')

Source: strftime @ apidock.com