How to change default format of Date in Rails 3?

Question

I\'m having problem with the date format of rails. It seems to me that the default Date Format is dd/mm/yyyy. How am I gonna change it to something like m

Answer 1

You can add the file into the config/initializers folder having name i.e. (date_time_formats.rb). Simply add following line to the file.

Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = '%m/%d/%Y'

As per requirement you can change date format.

Answer 2

Put following line in your enviroment.rb

Date::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(:default => "%m/%d/%Y")

and try

 Time.now.to_date.to_s

On you rails console