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

Choose what you want

 Date.parse('5-jan-2017').strftime('%B')

Result:

=> "January"

Date.parse('5-jan-2017').strftime('%b')

Result:

=> "Jan"

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