Question

I have my show page UserPrice :purchase_date attribute that is a date_select and I want to change its view:

<%= @user_price.purchase_date  %> 

from this (default):

Purchase Date: 2011-10-28

to these different formats:

1. October 28, 2011
2. 10/28/2011

How is this done?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Ignoring the fact that you might want put this in a helper (or these days, a decorator/presenter)… you could do the following directly in your view:

October 28, 2011

<%= @user_price.purchase_date.to_s(:long) %>

10/28/2011

<%= @user_price.purchase_date.strftime("%m/%d/%Y") %>