How can I use US-style dates in Rails using Ruby 1.9?

Question

I\'m in the U.S., and we usually format dates as "month/day/year". I\'m trying to make sure that my Rails app, using Ruby 1.9, assumes this format everywhere, and

Answer 1

Another option is Chronic - http://chronic.rubyforge.org/

You just need to set the endian preference to force only MM/DD/YYYY date format:

Chronic::DEFAULT_OPTIONS[ :endian_precedence ] = [ :middle ]

However the default for Chronic is the out-of-order US date format anyway!