Rob Biedenharn wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Nike Mike wrote:
>
>>
>> Can anyone give a suggestion so that i can able to format the date as
>> like this 3th - 5th June 2009
>> --
>
> irb> require 'date'
> => []
> irb> Date::MONTHNAMES
> => [nil, "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
> "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"]
> irb> myformat = lambda {|date| "%s %s %d"%[date.mday.ordinalize,
> Date::MONTHNAMES[date.month], date.year] }
> => #<Proc:0x00007ff7862efcb8@(irb):7>
> irb> myformat[Date.today]
> => "21st April 2009"
>
> That ought to be enough of a suggestion! Note that this is inside a
> Rails console so if you did this in plain Ruby, you'd have to require
> 'rubygems' and require 'activesupport' to get Fixnum#ordinalize
>
> -Rob
>
> Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
> r...@agileconsultingllc.com
Or you could use Date.today.strftime("%d %m %Y"), though you wouldn't
get the extension ('st'). Use a simple case statement on the last digit
if you can't or won't use ActiveSupport.
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