How do I set a default date format in Rails

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I have a :dob (date of birth) attribute and if I if I call it in a view it appears in a YYYY-MM-DD format. Where can I set the default to a MM-DD-YYYY or some other variation? I would prefer to have it as "January 28th, 1990" and can do that in the view with dob.to_formatted_s(:long_ordinal) but would prefer to have a default to keep the code in my view a little nicer.

the same type http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7145152/change-default-date-format-in-ruby-on-rails — Rajarshi Das, Apr 09 '14 at 08:30

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 09 '14 at 07:53

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# config/initializers/date_formats.rb
Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%m/%d/%Y"

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 09 '14 at 07:56

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You can change the format by overriding the default date format for ActiveSupport.

In config/environment.rb add this line

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

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How do I set a default date format in Rails

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