Transforming Datetime into month, day and year?

Question

I can\'t seem to find this and I feel like it should be easy. In Ruby on Rails, how do I take:

2010-06-14 19:01:00 UTC

and turn it into

Answer 1

Needs the Time module for Time.parse and ActiveSupport for Integer#ordinalize:

require 'time'
require 'active_support'

input = '2010-06-14 19:01:00 UTC'
t = Time.parse(input)
date = "%s %s, %d" % [t.strftime("%B"), t.day.ordinalize, t.year]
# => "June 14th, 2010"