Question

I have a database table named “events” with a column named “date.” Entries under that in the format of “Sunday, August 05, 2012”. I show it using events.date. How would I convert that string to a date with integers (like 8/5/12), and show it that way?

Answer 1

Actually, for exact result, i.e. “8/5/12”, you should try this:

Date.parse("Sunday, August 05, 2012").strftime("%1m/%1d/%y")