rails dates with json

Question

I am implementing a Facebook application and using AJAX/JSON.

However the JSON structures that are returned have this format 2010-05

Answer 1

If you want to do this with client-side javascript, you can parse individual dates with something like this:

prettyDate = function(dateString) {
  var day, formatted, jsDate, month;

  jsDate = new Date(dateString);
  day = jsDate.getMonth() + 1 < 10 ? "0" + (jsDate.getMonth() + 1) : "" + (jsDate.getMonth() + 1);
  month = jsDate.getDate() < 10 ? "0" + (jsDate.getDate()) : "" + (jsDate.getDate());

  formatted = "" + day + "/" + month + "/" + (jsDate.getFullYear());
  return formatted;
};

You'll need some additional code if your needing to format time of course.