ruby-american_date gem still displays yyyy-mm-dd in text field

Question

I added the following line in Gemfile.

gem 'american_date'

Rails is 3.2.13 and ruby is 1.9.3.

Everything's fine except that text field shows yyyy-mm-dd format instead of mm/dd/yyyy.

How do I set it correctly?

Sam

Edit:

I have the following configuration in the initializer.

Date::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(default: "%m/%d/%Y")
Time::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(default: "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")

However, the text field is not using the format. Why don't know why.

The `american_date` gem is only for parsing dates (i.e. from strings), not displaying them (i.e. to strings). — Jeff Terrell Ph.D., Sep 03 '15 at 01:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Why not just use a custom Time formatter? You don't need a whole gem to output mm/dd/yyyy format for a Time object.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Apr 03 '13 at 00:03

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I forgot to mention the configuration. I edited the question. – Sam Kong Apr 03 '13 at 02:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '13 at 08:14

I solved this problem using jQuery. I put the code inside of ready event.

  $('input.date').each(function() {
    if (/\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d/.test(this.value)) {
      var d = $.datepicker.parseDate("yy-mm-dd",  this.value);
      this.value = $.datepicker.formatDate('mm/dd/yy', d);
    }
  })

ruby-american_date gem still displays yyyy-mm-dd in text field

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