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 have a particular custom date / time format which you need to use repeatedly then you can extend the ActiveSupport date / time helper.

e.g. if you define the following in your config/environment.rb

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(:full_english => "%A %B %d, %Y at %I:%M %p")

then when you call Time.now.to_s(:full_english) in your views you will get something like:

"Friday June 11, 2010 at 12:53 PM"

Ruby's strftime method is well documented at http://apidock.com/ruby/Time/strftime