How do I format a date to mm/dd/yyyy in Ruby?

Question

In Perl you can do:

my $current_time = DateTime->now();
my $mdy = $current_time->mdy("/");

What's the easiest way to do this in Ruby?

Answer 1

The strftime method can be used to format times:

Time.now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")

Answer 2

I wrote a gem to help with formatting dates, and keeping your views DRY (not having to strftime every time you want to format dates).

Check it out at: http://github.com/platform45/easy_dates

Answer 3

You can simply use %D with strftime method

 > Time.now.strftime("%D")
 => "11/24/14"  # mm/dd/yy

Answer 4

my $current_time = DateTime->now();

my_current_time = DateTime.now

my $mdy = $current_time->mdy("/");

my_mdy = my_current_time.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")