Rails date format in a text_field

Question

I have a rails form that displays a date in a text_field:

<%= form.text_field :check_in_date  %>

The date is rendered as yyyy-m

Answer 1

Simple one time solution is to use :value option within text_field call instead of adding something to ActiveRecord::Base or CoreExtensions.

For example:

<%= f.text_field :some_date, value: @model_instance.some_date.strftime("%d-%m-%Y") %>