Hidden Features of Ruby on Rails [closed]

Answer 1

in your environment.rb, you can define new date/time formats e.g.

[Time::DATE_FORMATS, Date::DATE_FORMATS].each do |obj|
  obj[:dots] = "%m.%d.%y"
end

so then in your views you can use:

Created: <%= @my_object.created_at.to_s(:dots) %>

which will print like:

Created: 06.21.09