Rails convert string containing datetime to date

Question

I have a String which contains the following string 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC I want to change it into a date object so that is should look like this 03-06-2012 and the same is to be converted in String 03-06-2012 so that the jquery datepicker can take it.

All this conversion needs to be done at view .html.erb

Solution 1

Date.parse("2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC").strftime("%d-%m-%Y")

Solution 2

You can do this

date = DateTime.now
puts date.to_date.to_s

which gives "2013-08-21"

Solution 3

date = Date.parse('2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC')
# => Tue, 06 Mar 2012
date.strftime('%d-%m-%Y')
# => "06-03-2012"

Comments

[Paul Phoenix]

well I am newbie to front end and rails both when I do the given below it works <%= text_field_tag map1[:field_name], "#{Date.parse("2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC").strftime("%d-%m-%Y")}"%> but when i try using a variable instead of that hard coded value it breaks <%= text_field_tag map1[:field_name], "#{Date.parse("value").strftime("%d-%m-%Y")}", :class => 'blr', :placeholder => map1[:field_codes], :class =>"datepicker"%>

[Alive Developer]

you should tell me the exact error it gives, and also the content of your value variable. Be sure your variable name isn't inside double quotes

[Paul Phoenix]

Well as I already told I am a newbie. How can I check what error is thrown at view. It just fails to load

[Paul Phoenix]

value="2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC"

[Alive Developer]

It should not fail to show, it should print the error at browser. Is your project running in development environment?. You could, elseway, look if the output of rails s in console tells you anything

[Paul Phoenix]

yes it is running in development env. and the console is not giving me any error message related to this problem

[Epigene]

Not quite what the OP needs, but a straightforward way.