ruby - How to know if today's date is in a date range?

Question

I have an event with start_time and end_time and want to check if the event is "in progress". That would be to check if today's date is in the range between the two dates.

How would you do this in a function?

Answer 1

In Ruby 1.9.2 === doesn't work, I get an error:

irb(main):019:0> (Time.now .. (Time.now+1)) === Time.now
TypeError: can't iterate from Time
    from (irb):19:in `each'
    from (irb):19:in `include?'
    from (irb):19:in `include?'
    from (irb):19:in `==='
    from (irb):19
    from /opt/ruby192/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

Instead use #cover?:

irb(main):002:0> (Time.now..Time.now+4).cover?(Time.now)
=> true
irb(main):003:0> (Time.now..Time.now+4).cover?(Time.now+10)
=> false