Rails - Jul 2008 - changing date format of an object

I have an object that holds the date in the form of "Tue Jul 08
14:18:00-0700 2008" and I want to only display the time in the format
of 6:00-8:00 or just 6:00.  The controller looks like this:

def show
     @events = Event.find(:all, :conditions => [''date between ?
and ?'', @date.strftime("%Y-%m") + ''-01'',
@date.next_month.strftime("%Y-%m") + ''-01''])
end

I am thinking that I should write a function in the model that changes
the format of this current object to what I want.  Something like

def to_s
     #some code to change the format
end

and then append this function on the end of the event call like so:

def show
     @events = Event.find(:all, :conditions => [''date between ?
and ?'', @date.strftime("%Y-%m") + ''-01'',
@date.next_month.strftime("%Y-%m") + ''-01'']).to_s
end

but I have no idea if this is the right approach or what code to use
in the to_s function.  Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Hi Dave.

Have you seen this Railscasts? http://railscasts.com/episodes/31

It might get you started.

Best.
Mike

On Jul 7, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Dave Lynam wrote:
>
> I have an object that holds the date in the form of "Tue Jul 08
> 14:18:00-0700 2008" and I want to only display the time in the format
> of 6:00-8:00 or just 6:00.  The controller looks like this:
>
> def show
>     @events = Event.find(:all, :conditions => [''date between ?
> and ?'', @date.strftime("%Y-%m") +
''-01'',
> @date.next_month.strftime("%Y-%m") + ''-01''])
> end
>
> I am thinking that I should write a function in the model that changes
> the format of this current object to what I want.  Something like
>
> def to_s
>     #some code to change the format
> end
>
> and then append this function on the end of the event call like so:
>
> def show
>     @events = Event.find(:all, :conditions => [''date between ?
> and ?'', @date.strftime("%Y-%m") +
''-01'',
> @date.next_month.strftime("%Y-%m") +
''-01'']).to_s
> end
>
> but I have no idea if this is the right approach or what code to use
> in the to_s function.  Any help is greatly appreciated!
> >

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