How to display date of birth in dd-mm-yyyy format in Ruby

Question

I am getting a date of birth in yyyy-mm-dd format. I want it in dd-mm-yyyy format. How can this be done in Ruby?

Here is my code:

index.html:

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-md-6 dob">
    <%#= f.input :date_of_birth %>
  <%= f.date_select :date_of_birth,
    {:start_year => Time.now.year,
     :end_year => 1900,
     :use_short_month => true,
     :order => [:month, :day, :year],
     :prompt => {:day => 'Day',:month => 'Month', :year => 'Year'}}
 </div>

show.html:

<div class="col-md-10 primary-info-label">
  <label><%= @user.date_of_birth %></label>
</div>

Answer 1

To modify the format of the date of birth in your view, you can use strftime :

<div class="col-md-10 primary-info-label"> 
  <label><%= @user.date_of_birth.strftime("%d-%m-%Y") %></label>
</div>

The above should format the date_of_birth to be in mm-dd-yyyy format. More info on strftime here .

Hope it helps!