Rails: How to make Date strftime aware of the default locale?

Question

I have my default locale set in the environment.rb as de (German).

I also see all the error messages in German, so the locale is picked up

Answer 1

you can also make it shorter:

l(some_date, :format => '%d %B %Y')

Answer 2

In es.yml put:

es:
  date:
    formats:
      default: "%d / %m / %Y"

In index.html.erb put:

<%= l somemodel.datefield %>

Answer 3

Use the l (alias for localize) method instead of raw strftime, like this:

l(date, format: '%B %d, in the year %Y')

See here for more information, hope that helps.

You can also define 'named' formats, a couple of them (short, long) are already predefined.