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

That works (checked in Rails 3.1), put it into config/initializer/times_format.js. First two lines fix default time format (e.g. AR created_at). Third part is monkey patch for JSON.

Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%Y-%m-%d"
Time::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

class ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone
  def as_json(options={})
    strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
  end
end