Rails Format Date in Drop Down List in View

Question

I could you some assistance formatting a date field in a drop-down list in a for in a view. My dates are showing with a time-stamp and I\'d like them to show as \"mm/dd/yyy

Answer 1

In your model add the following method

  def event_date_formatted
    event_date.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")
  end

Then you can simply use like so:

<%= select_tag "event_date", options_from_collection_for_select(UgradRsvp.get_event_dates, 'event_date', :event_date_formatted) %>

Answer 2

I not try yet, but you can try to add method to Model like

class UgradRsvp < ActiveRecord::Base
    def event_date_text
        event_date.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
    end
end

and then call event_date_text as txt_method

<%= select_tag "event_date", options_from_collection_for_select(UgradRsvp.get_event_dates, "event_date", "event_date_text") %>