On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Nike Mike wrote:
>
> Can anyone give a suggestion so that i can able to format the date as
> like this 3th - 5th June 2009
> --
irb> require 'date'
=> []
irb> Date::MONTHNAMES
=> [nil, "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
"July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"]
irb> myformat = lambda {|date| "%s %s %d"%[date.mday.ordinalize,
Date::MONTHNAMES[date.month], date.year] }
=> #<Proc:0x00007ff7862efcb8@(irb):7>
irb> myformat[Date.today]
=> "21st April 2009"
That ought to be enough of a suggestion! Note that this is inside a
Rails console so if you did this in plain Ruby, you'd have to require
'rubygems' and require 'activesupport' to get Fixnum#ordinalize
-Rob
Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com
r...@agileconsultingllc.com
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