On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I just ran into an issue which I solved in an...er...interesting way, > and I'm trying to figure out if my solution is brilliant or terrible. > > Basically, I have a Date attribute in one of my AR models which I would > like my views to display with a particular format (other than what > Date#to_s gives). Rather than have to call a formatting method on this > attribute every time I use it in a view, what I have done is to override > the to_s method on the object's singleton class. > > Does this make sense? Is there a better way to handle date formatting > in Rails? >
There is a way to specify different date formats in rails, checkout the "Adding your own time formats to to_formatted_s" section of the API. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Date/Conversions.html
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