Question

I currently have this if statement:

if Time.now.day == 1 and Time.now.hour == 0 and Time.now.minute == 0 and Time.now.second == 0

Is there a more concise way to do this?

Answer 1

The standard Ruby Time library is pretty spare, so I would simply add my own method to make this easier:

class Time
  def beginning_of_month
    Time.local(self.year, self.month, 1)
  end

  def beginning_of_month?
    self == beginning_of_month
  end
end

so you could then write:

if Time.now.beginning_of_month?