to_formatted_s(format = :default)
Instance Public methods
Convert to a formatted string. See DATE_FORMATS for predefined formats.
This method is aliased to to_s.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | date = Date.new(2007, 11, 10) # => Sat, 10 Nov 2007date.to_formatted_s(:db) # => "2007-11-10"date.to_s(:db) # => "2007-11-10"date.to_formatted_s(:short) # => "10 Nov"date.to_formatted_s(:long) # => "November 10, 2007"date.to_formatted_s(:long_ordinal) # => "November 10th, 2007"date.to_formatted_s(:rfc822) # => "10 Nov 2007"date.to_formatted_s(:iso8601) # => "2007-11-10" |
Adding your own date formats to #to_formatted_s
You can add your own formats to the Date::DATE_FORMATS hash. Use the format name as the hash key and either a strftime string or Proc instance that takes a date argument as the value.
1 2 3 | # config/initializers/date_formats.rbDate::DATE_FORMATS[:month_and_year] = '%B %Y'Date::DATE_FORMATS[:short_ordinal] = ->(date) { date.strftime("%B #{date.day.ordinalize}") } |
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