Format date time in find operation in Rails 3

Question

I\'m looking for a way to format date time in find(:all) so that when I render my results in JSON, the date time will look like

\"March 20, 2011\"

instead of

Answer 1

OK, so you want to render the results in JSON formatted nicely. Instead of changing the format of the date on the way in, change it on the way out.

class Post

  def formatted_created_at
    created_at.strftime("%b %d, %Y")
  end

  def as_json(args={})
    super(:methods=>:formatted_created_at, :except=>:date)
  end
end