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

Look you use jbuilder? and for example index.json.jbuilder

json.array!(@textstrings) do |textstring|
  json.extract! textstring, :id, :text
  json.created_at textstring.created_at.to_formatted_s(:short) 
  json.url textstring_url(textstring, format: :json)
end

in this example I am use method .to_formatted_s

 json.created_at textstring.created_at.to_formatted_s(:short

and i've got

[{"id":1,"text":"liveasda","created_at":"17 Nov 12:48","url":"http://localhost:5555/textstrings/1.json"},{"id":2,"text":"123","created_at":"17 Nov 14:26","url":"http://localhost:5555/textstrings/2.json"},