How to display the current date in “mm/dd/yyyy” format in Rails

Question

In my view I want to display the current date in \"mm/dd/yyyy\" format.

Answer 1

I think you can use .strftime:

t = Time.now()
t.strftime("The date is %m/%d/%y")

This should give "The date is 09/09/10". See here for a great list of the format codes for .strftime.