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

Try converting the entry to a string first. As long as the database column type is a date it will be formated as a date.

self.date || self.exif_date_time_original.to_s