Formatting dates in rails templates using strftime()

paul — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:07:38 +0100

Recently I needed to be able to format a date that I had retrieved from the database into something more readable. In smarty one would do something like $date|date_format but I could not find anything like that in ruby.

Then someone pointed out that the date field in the database would be recognised as such and would be a date object in my View.

As the date is a Date object I can use strftime() to reformat the date any way I want to. eg. @event.start_date.strftime("%d %B %Y")

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Formatting dates in rails templates using strftime()