Hello,
I have an application which stores date in DateTime format, and displays
it as long format, for example: November, 4, 2009
I want to extract month name and year only from the DateTime format to
display it as: November 2009.
Any help?
Hi Ahmed A.
Read this
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Date/Conversions.html
Sijo
Check out strftime in the API.
shyam mohan wrote:
use this
show_time = Time.now.strftime("%B %Y")
Regards,
Shyam
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Thank you very much. It works.
Ahmed A. wrote:
I want to extract month name and year only from the DateTime format to
display it as: November 2009.
FYI: If you find yourself using the same custom date/time format in
multiple places in your application you can DRY that up by adding to the
named date/time formats using:
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions:
:Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(:concise
=> “%d.%b.%y”)
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions:
(:concise
=> “%d.%b.%y”)
You can shorten that up by creating config/initializers/
time_formats.rb and dropping this into it:
Date::DATE_FORMATS[:concise] = Time::DATE_FORMATS[:concise] = “%d.%b.%y”
On Feb 18, 8:35 am, Ahmed A. [email protected] wrote:
shyam mohan wrote:
use this
show_time = Time.now.strftime(“%B %Y”)
Thank you very much. It works.
ARG! Yes, it works - but I don’t think I’d call that “the rails way.”
formatting dates and times is really part of internationalization -
even if it doesn’t feel like it in this case.
Check out
for what may be a more elegant solution. Certainly nicely centralized
if you want to use that format in more than one location.
–
Kurt W.
I am looking for a new Rails job:
http://www.CircleW.org/kurt/pages/resume
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Sijo k g [email protected] wrote:
Hi Ahmed A.
Read this
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Date/Conversions.html
Sijo
For DateTime formatting, one should use the following document instead:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/DateTime/Conversions.html
-Conrad
[email protected] wrote:
ARG! Yes, it works - but I don’t think I’d call that “the rails way.”
formatting dates and times is really part of internationalization -
even if it doesn’t feel like it in this case.
Yes, this I know. Maybe I should have mentioned that.
I suppose I was thinking in BDD… “The simplest solution that could
possibly work.” I wouldn’t consider implementing I18n based on date/time
formats alone. However, once I had a need for I18n then date/time
formats would certainly be re-factored into that implementation.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Ahmed A.
[email protected]wrote:
Hello,
I have an application which stores date in DateTime format, and displays
it as long format, for example: November, 4, 2009I want to extract month name and year only from the DateTime format to
display it as: November 2009.
Ahmed, you’ll need to do the following:
a) add the following to your config/initializers/time_formats.rb file:
Time::DATE_FORMATS[::month_and_year] = “%B %Y”
b) call it by doing
post.created_at.to_formatted_s(:month_and_year)
c) simply syntax in two by adding an instance method to the relevant
model file
def some_date_format
self.created_at.to_formatted_s(:month_and_year)
end
Good luck,
-Conrad
Any help?
@Conrad T. - This is exactly how it should be done.
Going further, if You would need to change date/time format in whole
application from one place You could use:
#config/enviroment.rb
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS[:default]
= lambda { |time| I18n.l time, :format => :db }
Best,
Martin