Comments on: Custom Date Formats for Your Rails Application

By: Steven Noble

Steven Noble — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:34:58 +0000

Love your work. Got it in one.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:03:11 +0000

Yeah, You have the wrong method order converting AM/PM to lowercase.

You have in your code

date.strftime.downcase(”%p”)

But you need

date.strftime("%p").downcase

You’re getting an argument error because of this.

By: Steven Noble

Steven Noble — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:25:05 +0000

Cheers for this.

I have the following in /config/initializers/time_formats.rb:

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
:sentence => lambda { |date| date.strftime(“%B #{date.day.ordinalize}, %Y, at %l.%M”) + date.strftime.downcase(“%p”) }
)

I have the following in a view:

I get this error when I load the view in a browser:

wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)

I get no error (but no formatting) if I instead use this in the view:

Any idea what’s going on?

By: bseanvt

bseanvt — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:33:55 +0000

Thanks! I was using a datetime type field from the db (created_at/updated_at) so I needed to add it to the Time module instead.

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
:simple => “%A %B %d, %Y”
)

By: Greg Moreno

Greg Moreno — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:15:00 +0000

Or you can store the format a file config/initializers/date_formats.rb with the ff code:

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
:my_custom_format => “%A %B %d, %Y”
)