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 want a localized month name, try:

I18n.t('date.month_names')[date.month]

Example:

I18n.t('date.month_names')[12] #=> "Dezembro"