Created_on & updated_on - helper to display date only

Rails
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All,

My initial list is rather busy. I would like to shorten the
created_on and updated_on fields to just display the date, not the
time. Best wold be a simple 12/28/05 type of presentation.

I’ve found the format helpers in rdoc. (ie.
distance_of_time_in_words_to_now ), but none seem to be what I’m
looking for.

How do I control the date format of a timestamp field?

Thanks
Greg

Greg F.
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

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On 12/27/05, Greg F. [email protected] wrote:

How do I control the date format of a timestamp field?

Thanks
Greg

Greg F.
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

http://rails.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Time/Conversions.html

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000249

–
rick
http://techno-weenie.net

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On 12/27/05, Rick O. [email protected] wrote:

class Time - RDoc Documentation

.to_date was exactly what I wanted, thanks.

Newbie question: I’ve got the pickaxe book and looking at the Time
class (pg 642-649), I don’t see a .to_date method. Am I looking in
the wrong place, or is the book out of date?

Thanks
Greg

Greg F.
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

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I’ve found the format helpers in rdoc. (ie.
distance_of_time_in_words_to_now ), but none seem to be what I’m
looking for.

How do I control the date format of a timestamp field?

Thanks
Greg

It’s a method added by rails. Notice the first link I gave you was
for ActiveSupport (the Rails lib that adds those niceties, and other
things like string inflection and fixnum extensions).

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rick
http://techno-weenie.net