Transform DateTime into simple Date in Ruby on Rails

Question

I have a datetime column in db that I want to transform into a simple date when I show it to users.

How can I do that?

def shown_date
  # to_date does not exi         


        

Answer 1

DateTime#to_date does exist with ActiveSupport:

$ irb
>> DateTime.new.to_date
NoMethodError: undefined method 'to_date' for #
    from (irb):1

>> require 'active_support/core_ext'
=> true

>> DateTime.new.to_date
=> Mon, 01 Jan -4712