The default date format in Ruby is yyyy-mm-dd, but I needed them to be dd/mm/yyyy in the view
I have wrote a date_format file in config/initializers
as:
Time::DATE_FORMATS.merge!( :uk_format => '%m/%d/%Y')
This didn't work since I need to call date.to_s(:uk_format)
in order to use this format. But since I'm using <%= f.text_field :paymentDate %>
to display the date, I'm not sure I can add to_s
to this case.
Can someone help me out please.
Edit 1
Actually date.to_s(:uk_format) doesn't work either, how do I use initializer properly.....?
See: Change default Ruby Time format
Adapted my answer linked to above for the Date and format specified:
Since you're using Rails, take advantage of the I18n support: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html#adding-date-time-formats
# config/locales/en.yml
en:
date:
formats:
default: "%d/%m/%Y"
Then you can call I18n.l Date.today
to get out a formatted date. Or in your view, you can use <%= l @foo.created_at %>
.
Try this instead:
Time::DATE_FORMATS.merge!({:db => '%m/%d/%Y', :uk_format => '%m/%d/%Y'})
Date::DATE_FORMATS.merge!({:db => '%m/%d/%Y', :uk_format => '%m/%d/%Y'})
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