How To: Special Date Formats

Rails
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I can’t find how to format dates in Rails.

For example I want to display a datetime as:

“Tuesday, April 10th, 2007”

The closest I’ve been able to get is something like:

foo.created_at.to_s(:short)

Is there a way to pass options into the to_s method?

2

The “Time” class supports the POSIX standard “strftime()” function…
This
should get you everything except the “th” part:

foo.created_at.strftime(“%A, %B %-e, %Y”);

Cheers,
Tyler

Arch S. [email protected] wrote:

Is there a way to pass options into the to_s method?

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I can’t find how to format dates in Rails.
For example I want to display a datetime as:
“Tuesday, April 10th, 2007”

see:
http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/pickaxe/html/ref_c_time.html#Time.strftime