Format date time in find operation in Rails 3

Question

I\'m looking for a way to format date time in find(:all) so that when I render my results in JSON, the date time will look like

\"March 20, 2011\"

instead of

Answer 1

Off the top of my head, you could do something like:

@posts = Post.all
@posts.all.each do |x|
  x.date = x.date.strftime("%b %d, %Y")
end
@posts.to_json