how do I get name of the month in ruby on Rails?

Question

so i create in my view:

<%=date=Date.today%>

How do i get the name of the month out of the date? I was trying to do sth like

Answer 1

If you are looking solely to the month name, the Date::MONTHNAMES constant provided by rails is the easiest solution for you:

   Date::MONTHNAMES = 
   [
    [ 0] nil,
    [ 1] "January",
    [ 2] "February",
    [ 3] "March",
    [ 4] "April",
    [ 5] "May",
    [ 6] "June",
    [ 7] "July",
    [ 8] "August",
    [ 9] "September",
    [10] "October",
    [11] "November",
    [12] "December"
   ]