Question

So I have a model instance that has a datetime attribute. I am displaying it in my view using:

<%= @instance.date.to_date %> 

but it shows up as: 2011-09-09

I want it to show up as: September 9th, 2011

How do I do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

<%= @instance.date.strftime("%B %d, %Y") %>

This would give you “September 9, 2011”.

If you really needed the ordinal on the day (“th”, “rd”, etc.), you could do:

<%= @instance.date.strftime("%B #{@instance.date.day.ordinalize}, %Y") %>