Rails - May 2006 - Ordinalizing a date

I''m trying to use the ordinalize() method to ordinalize a day.
Here''s
how far I''ve gotten:

@reportday = Time.now.at_beginning_of_week.strftime("%d").to_i
@ordinalized_reportday = "#{@reportday}".ordinalize

I was thinking it wasn''t working because the date is being returned as
a
string, however I added the .to_i and still it returns an error.

The error I''m getting is:

undefined method `ordinalize'' for "22":String

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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2006/5/24, Ben <whywontitletme@yahoo.com>:
> I''m trying to use the ordinalize() method to ordinalize a day.
Here''s
> how far I''ve gotten:
>
> @reportday = Time.now.at_beginning_of_week.strftime("%d").to_i
> @ordinalized_reportday = "#{@reportday}".ordinalize
>
> I was thinking it wasn''t working because the date is being
returned as a
> string, however I added the .to_i and still it returns an error.
Yes, to_i gives you Fixnum, as script/console shows:
>> @reportday =
Time.now.at_beginning_of_week.strftime("%d").to_i
=> 22
>> @reportday.class
=> Fixnum

However, you spoil everything with the next line?"#{@reportday}" gives
you a string:
>> "#{@reportday}".class
=> String

You can either do this way: @ordinalized_reportday = @reportday}.ordinalize,
or all at once:

@ordinalized_reportday
Time.now.at_beginning_of_week.strftime("%d").to_i.ordinalize

HTH

Regards,
Rimantas
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On 5/23/06, Rimantas Liubertas <rimantas@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2006/5/24, Ben <whywontitletme@yahoo.com>:
> > I''m trying to use the ordinalize() method to ordinalize a
day. Here''s
> > how far I''ve gotten:
http://rails.techno-weenie.net/tip/2006/4/2/show_ordinalized_days_when_formatting_times




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