Custom datetime format in ruby?

Question

I am trying to output a string that represents the current date/time in a format like this "yyyyMMddHHmm". For example, "201310310759" for "7:59am on 10/31/2013".

This is what I have so far:

Date.today.to_formatted_s(:db).gsub("-","")

Answer 1

Use:

Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M")

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