Transform DateTime into simple Date in Ruby on Rails

Question

I have a datetime column in db that I want to transform into a simple date when I show it to users.

How can I do that?

def shown_date
  # to_date does not exi         


        

Answer 1

In Ruby 1.9.2 and above they added a .to_date function to DateTime:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/date/rdoc/DateTime.html#method-i-to_date

This instance method doesn't appear to be present in earlier versions like 1.8.7.