Sean's Blog » formatting http://seanbehan.com Web Programming, Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, PHP from Burlington, Vermont Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:44:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Custom Date Formats for Your Rails Application http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/custom-date-formats-for-your-rails-application/ http://seanbehan.com/ruby-on-rails/custom-date-formats-for-your-rails-application/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 16:16:13 +0000 bseanvt http://bseanvt.wordpress.com/?p=230

If you use a consistent date format often in your Rails applciation, it is worth it to add the format to your application environment. You can do this by adding  it to the bottom of the config/environment.rb file.

Time::DATE_FORMATS[:my_custom_format] = "%A %B %d, %Y"

Now you can use it in your views like this

@post.created_at.to_s(:my_custom_format)

Which will output something like Monday May 5, 2009

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