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

I added these to my initializers/time_formats.rb and it works great:

# Default format for displaying dates and times
Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%m/%d/%Y"
Time::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%m/%d/%Y"

Using Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2.x