Rails: to_date with a month/day/year format

Question

I have a simple question here. I have an instance variable with a created_at. How would I convert it to Month, day, year ~ September, 13, 1987

When I tried = @example.created_at In my view it gives me 1987-09-13

Oddly enough when I do this method in console I get Sun, 13 Sep 1987

1. How do I turn my variable to month, date, year?
2. Why does it return something different in console?

Answer 1

You can change how a date is displayed by specifying a format like

@example.created_at.strftime("%B, %d, %Y")
# => "September, 20, 2013" 

Check out various format options here

The display format is different in console and view as the default formats are different.