Change date format in the view to dd/mm/yyyy

Question

The default date format in Ruby is yyyy-mm-dd, but I needed them to be dd/mm/yyyy in the view

I have wrote a date_format file in config/initializers as:

Answer 1

Try this instead:

Time::DATE_FORMATS.merge!({:db => '%m/%d/%Y', :uk_format => '%m/%d/%Y'})
Date::DATE_FORMATS.merge!({:db => '%m/%d/%Y', :uk_format => '%m/%d/%Y'})