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

So I did something like this in the model.

def start_date
  super.strftime "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M"
end

Say you have a column called start_date in model, and want to display another format in the form, just overwrite its value in model.

And nothing needs to be changed in the form.

<%= f.text_field :start_date, class: 'form-control' %>