In Rails3 you can run: Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%m/%d/%Y"
skipping the ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::... see your installation of active support, eg: activesupport-3.0.0.beta3/lib/active_support/core_ext/conversions.rb for more info. Josh Susser wrote: > Dav Yaginuma wrote: >> I've spent all day digging through the rails api and postgres-pr on >> this, I think it's time to ask the list. >> >> Postgres stores a Date in YYYY-MM-DD format. My users want the dates >> in MM/DD/YYYY format. >> >> Sure, I could explicitly convert it on the app level every place where >> a date is displayed, but that seemed like a DRY violation. > > There's already a nice way to do this. ActiveSupport enhances Date#to_s > to take a format parameter. Fire up script/console and look at the value > of this hash: > ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS > > If you add an entry for :default, that will be used for all to_s > conversions where you don't specify a format. And you can use > some_date.to_s(:db) to output in the format for your database. If you > want to change or add formats, put something like this in your > environment.rb after the end of the Initializer block: > > ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!( > :default => '%m/%d/%Y', > :date_time12 => "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M%p", > :date_time24 => "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M", > ) > > --josh > http://blog.hasmanythrough.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
