Question

I am trying to format my date from my RoR project, though having real issue understanding how this works. In php this is a simple date(“format”,time())

if i call just the standard time stored within the database i am getting
2012-08-12 22:25:00 +1000

I am trying to call the date formats event_time and event_date

Time::DATE_FORMATS[:month_and_year] = "%B %Y"
Time::DATE_FORMATS[:event_time] = "%l:%M %p"
Time::DATE_FORMATS[:event_date] = "%a, %e %b, %Y"

I am currently trying to call this like

= schedule.time.to_s(:event_time)

The issue I am having is that I am getting the following error:

wrong number of arguments(1 for 0)

Answer 1

You can use strftime or esle your approach is also good if you need data frequently in this date format

The code you added works great for me

pritesh@cloudy-pritesh:~/railsdemo$ rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.6)
1.9.3p194 :001 > Date.today.to_s(:event_time)
 => "2012-08-13" 
1.9.3p194 :002 > Time::DATE_FORMATS[:month_and_year] = "%B %Y"
 => "%B %Y" 
1.9.3p194 :003 > Time::DATE_FORMATS[:event_time] = "%l:%M %p"
 => "%l:%M %p" 
1.9.3p194 :004 > Time::DATE_FORMATS[:event_date] = "%a, %e %b, %Y"
 => "%a, %e %b, %Y" 
1.9.3p194 :005 > Time.now.to_s(:event_time)
 => "11:13 AM" 

you can also do this by using Time.now.strftime("%B %Y")

My last guess, may be you are looping the records and shomewhere in the records there is a record with time having nil value