Rails - Dec 2005 - created_on & updated_on - helper to display date only

All,

My initial list is rather busy.  I would like to shorten the
created_on and updated_on fields to just display the date, not the
time.  Best wold be a simple 12/28/05 type of presentation.

I''ve found the format helpers in rdoc. (ie.
distance_of_time_in_words_to_now ), but none seem to be what I''m
looking for.

How do I control the date format of a timestamp field?

Thanks
Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

On 12/27/05, Greg Freemyer
<greg.freemyer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> All,
>
> My initial list is rather busy.  I would like to shorten the
> created_on and updated_on fields to just display the date, not the
> time.  Best wold be a simple 12/28/05 type of presentation.
>
> I''ve found the format helpers in rdoc. (ie.
> distance_of_time_in_words_to_now ), but none seem to be what I''m
> looking for.
>
> How do I control the date format of a timestamp field?
>
> Thanks
> Greg
> --
> Greg Freemyer
> The Norcross Group
> Forensics for the 21st Century
http://rails.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Time/Conversions.html

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000249



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rick
http://techno-weenie.net

On 12/27/05, Rick Olson
<technoweenie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On 12/27/05, Greg Freemyer
<greg.freemyer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > My initial list is rather busy.  I would like to shorten the
> > created_on and updated_on fields to just display the date, not the
> > time.  Best wold be a simple 12/28/05 type of presentation.
> >
> > I''ve found the format helpers in rdoc. (ie.
> > distance_of_time_in_words_to_now ), but none seem to be what
I''m
> > looking for.
> >
> > How do I control the date format of a timestamp field?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Greg
> > --
> > Greg Freemyer
> > The Norcross Group
> > Forensics for the 21st Century
>
>
http://rails.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/Time/Conversions.html
>
> http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000249
>
.to_date was exactly what I wanted, thanks.

Newbie question:  I''ve got the pickaxe book and looking at the Time
class (pg 642-649), I don''t see a .to_date method.  Am I looking in
the wrong place, or is the book out of date?

Thanks
Greg
--
Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

> > > I''ve found the format helpers in rdoc. (ie.
> > > distance_of_time_in_words_to_now ), but none seem to be what
I''m
> > > looking for.
> > >
> > > How do I control the date format of a timestamp field?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Greg
It''s a method added by rails.  Notice the first link I gave you was
for ActiveSupport (the Rails lib that adds those niceties, and other
things like string inflection and fixnum extensions).

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rick
http://techno-weenie.net