Time conversion between ruby on rails and javascript vice versa?

Question

How to convert ruby time to javascript time and vice versa?

Ruby on rails :

 Time.now

Javascript :

 new Date()
         


        

Answer 1

Use strftime to get miliseconds:

And parse back to Ruby using to_date:

params[:date].to_date

to_date accepts few formats:

'3-2-2001'
'03/02/2001'
'2001-02-03'
'3rd Feb 2001'
'20010203'