How do I format a date to mm/dd/yyyy in Ruby?

Question

In Perl you can do:

my $current_time = DateTime->now();
my $mdy = $current_time->mdy(\"/\");

What\'s the easiest way to do this in Ru

Answer 1

You can simply use %D with strftime method

 > Time.now.strftime("%D")
 => "11/24/14"  # mm/dd/yy