Determine whether year is leap year or not

Ruby
1

I have to determine whether a year is a leap year or not when the user
inputs the year.

Example below:

Enter year: 2016
2016 is a leap year

Enter year: 2013
2013 is not a leap year

I have no idea where to start as my professor did not explain it very
well in his notes. Can somebody please help me.

2

Ryan, you go to wikipedia and find out how to calculate whether or not a
year is a leap year. Then you implement it in ruby. That’s how you’re
going to learn the most from the task.

Hint: You’ll probably need a class with a method: is_leap_year? After
that’s working you can think about printing the message to the terminal.

3

Joe Gain wrote in post #1185078:

Hint: You’ll probably need a class with a method: is_leap_year? After
that’s working you can think about printing the message to the terminal.

I would not create a class just for this. What instance variables should
the class have? Instead I would do one of the following:

(1) Put the method is_leap_year? into Fixnum

 class Fixnum
    def is_leap_year?
      ...
    end
 end

(2) Likewise, put the method into Time and name it then more
appropriately
is_in_leap_year?

(3) Create a module for this - for instance DateUtilities - and make it
a module method, like this:

module DateUtilities

  extend self

  def is_leap_year?(year)
    ...
  end

end