Question

I’m displaying user messages on a page and for each user that UserA has sent a message to or received one from has a created_at time.

For each conversation thread I want to display the date of the lastest message in the thread. I’m pulling the created_at time and it’s showing like this:

2012-02-08 09:56:34 UTC

if I add to_date at the end of created_at I can get the date to show this way:

2012-02-08

I’d like to know an easy method for converting either one of those into something like this:

February 8

8 February

February 8th

8th February

and if message not created_at in current year then display the year with the date

e.g. February 8, 2006

Kind regards

Answer 1

Use strftime method to format the date. You can say created_at.strftime("%B -d") for Febraury 8 for example.