Rails - Jun 2006 - change 1-06-2006 to 1st July 2006 (date formatting)

Hi,

I have a few dates coming from the datebase in the format
''DD-MM-YYYY''

How can I change this in to a more human readable format?

such as 1st July 2006

Thanks
Scott

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scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a few dates coming from the datebase in the format
''DD-MM-YYYY''
>
> How can I change this in to a more human readable format?
>
> such as 1st July 2006
>
> Thanks
> Scott
>
>   
See Time#strftime.

Regards,

Dan

Daniel Berger wrote:

> scott wrote:
>>
>> I have a few dates coming from the datebase in the format
''DD-MM-YYYY''
>>
>> How can I change this in to a more human readable format?
>>
> See Time#strftime.
Just in case you haven''t got it bookmarked yet, you can see
Time#strftime
(and a lot of other Ruby you''re going to have questions about) at:

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_time.html

The search capabilities at rubycentral have been a source of motivation for 
some and there are sites that offer the same content with additional 
capabilities.  A couple are (and there are others)

http://www.ruby.ch/en/rubybookonline.shtml

http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

I find these and other sites more helpful after having bought the book 
itself, and still very often just grab the book when I''m thinking
through
how to tackle a challenge.

hth,
Bill

thanks for the links, totally new to ruby, so they should come in useful

After a bit of reading I have managed to get this to work

<%date = Time.now %>
<%= date.strftime("%d %B %Y") %>

the Value @pMin = yyyy-mm-dd eg 2006-06-06

how can I put this in to a time obeject to use the strftime function 
with it?

Thanks
Scott

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Hi Scott,

scott wrote:
> the Value @pMin = yyyy-mm-dd eg 2006-06-06
>
> how can I put this in to a time obeject to use
> the strftime function with it?
I think you''ll find what you want at http://api.rubyonrails.org  in the
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions module.

hth,
Bill