Rob Biedenharn wrote:> On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Nike Mike wrote:
>
>>
>> Can anyone give a suggestion so that i can able to format the date as
>> like this 3th - 5th June 2009
>> --
>
> irb> require ''date''
> => []
> irb> Date::MONTHNAMES
> => [nil, "January", "February", "March",
"April", "May", "June",
> "July", "August", "September",
"October", "November", "December"]
> irb> myformat = lambda {|date| "%s %s
%d"%[date.mday.ordinalize,
> Date::MONTHNAMES[date.month], date.year] }
> => #<Proc:0x00007ff7862efcb8@(irb):7>
> irb> myformat[Date.today]
> => "21st April 2009"
>
> That ought to be enough of a suggestion! Note that this is inside a
> Rails console so if you did this in plain Ruby, you''d have to
require
> ''rubygems'' and require ''activesupport''
to get Fixnum#ordinalize
>
> -Rob
>
> Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
> Rob-xa9cJyRlE0mWcWVYNo9pwxS2lgjeYSpx@public.gmane.org
Or you could use Date.today.strftime("%d %m %Y"), though you
wouldn''t
get the extension (''st''). Use a simple case statement on the
last digit
if you can''t or won''t use ActiveSupport.
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