Inline data formatting in Ruby on Rails

Question

Within a rails app I have a .jst.eco template which includes the line...

<span> <%= @event.get 'create_at' %> </span>

...which renders the date like so 2015-01-17 11:04:03.

However I only want to display 2015-01-17. Is there a neat formatting trick I can use within the <%= ... %>?

Arup Rakshit · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-17 12:26:29Z

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You can write as:

span> <%= @event.get('create_at').to_s(:db) %> </span>
# or
span> <%= @event.get('create_at').to_formatted_s(:db) %> </span>

:db means '%Y-%m-%d. Check out DATE_FORMATS.

answered Jan 17, 2015 at 12:26

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Tom Gasaner · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-17 12:31:21Z

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It depends on the object you have. If it is a time object, you can do:

@event.get('create_at').strftime('%F')

if it is just a string, then first you should parse it:

Time.parse(@event.get('create_at')).strftime('%F')

According to .strftime docs %F is The ISO 8601 date format (%Y-%m-%d)

answered Jan 17, 2015 at 12:31

Tom Gasaner

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Best answer because of the string comment. Thanks alot.