Rails date format in a text_field

Question

I have a rails form that displays a date in a text_field:

<%= form.text_field :check_in_date  %> 

The date is rendered as yyyy-mm-dd

I'm trying to figure out how to have it display as mm-dd-yyyy

I tried adding this config but it didn't work.

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(   :default => '%m/%d/%Y' ) 

Answer 1

Simple one time solution is to use :value option within text_field call instead of adding something to ActiveRecord::Base or CoreExtensions.

For example:

<%= f.text_field :some_date, value: @model_instance.some_date.strftime("%d-%m-%Y") %> 

Answer 2

I added these to my initializers/time_formats.rb and it works great:

# Default format for displaying dates and times Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%m/%d/%Y" Time::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%m/%d/%Y" 

Using Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2.x