Using blocks in Rails custom date formats

Posted January 15th, 2009; 1 comments.

A not-so-well known feature of ActiveSupport is its ability to handle blocks as definitions for custom date and time formats. Here’s one I just added to a project to give nice short dates, stripping out any leading zeros:

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
  :shorty => lambda {|date| date.strftime("%m/%d/%y").gsub(/0?(\d+)\/0?(\d+)\/(\d+)/, '\1/\2/\3')}
)

You can drop that in your environment.rb; a better option is to place it in a file inside config/initializers.

Filed in Rails, Ruby.

1 Response to “Using blocks in Rails custom date formats”

kemper replied on February 20th, 2009 at 02:55 AM:

Thanks for the little snippets.

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Using blocks in Rails custom date formats

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