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Ruby program to get the current weekday

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will get the current weekday number using the wday() method of Time class. Then we will print the current weekday based on the week number.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the current weekday is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to get the current weekday

Weekday = ["SUNDAY","MONDAY","TUESDAY","WEDNESDAY","THURSDAY","FRIDAY","SATURDAY"];

date_time = Time.new();

curretDateTime = date_time.inspect();

weeknum  = date_time.wday();

print "Weekday is: ",Weekday[weeknum];

Output

Weekday is: THURSDAY

Explanation

In the above program, we created an array of weekdays and also created the object of Time class, and got the current weekday number using the wday() method. Then we got the weekday based on week number and print the result.

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