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

I recently wrote a gem to simplify this process and to neaten up your views, etc etc.

Check it out at: http://github.com/platform45/easy_dates