Transform DateTime into simple Date in Ruby on Rails

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I have a datetime column in db that I want to transform into a simple date when I show it to users   How can I do that    def shown date     to date does not exist  but is what I am looking for   self date    self exif date time original to date  end

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Try converting the entry to a string first  As long as the database column type is a date it will be formated as a date   self date    self exif date time original to s

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DateTime to date does exist with ActiveSupport     irb  gt  gt  DateTime new to date NoMethodError  undefined method  to date  for   lt DateTime  -1 2 0 2299161 gt      from  irb  1   gt  gt  require  active support core ext    gt  true   gt  gt  DateTime new to date   gt  Mon  01 Jan -4712

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Hello collimarco    you can use ruby strftime method to create ur own date time display   time strftime  string      string     a - The abbreviated weekday name    Sun       A - The  full  weekday  name    Sunday       b - The abbreviated month name    Jan       B - The  full  month  name    January       c - The preferred local date and time representation    d - Day of the month  01  31     H - Hour of the day  24-hour clock  00  23     I - Hour of the day  12-hour clock  01  12     j - Day of the year  001  366     m - Month of the year  01  12     M - Minute of the hour  00  59     p - Meridian indicator    AM    or    PM       S - Second of the minute  00  60     U - Week  number  of the current year            starting with the first Sunday as the first           day of the first week  00  53     W - Week  number  of the current year            starting with the first Monday as the first           day of the first week  00  53     w - Day of the week  Sunday is 0  0  6     x - Preferred representation for the date alone  no time    X - Preferred representation for the time alone  no date    y - Year without a century  00  99     Y - Year with century    Z - Time zone name      - Literal       character     t   Time now    t strftime  Printed on  m  d  Y        gt   Printed on 04 09 2003     t strftime  at  I  M p                 gt   at 08 56AM

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In Ruby 1 9 2 and above they added a  to date function to DateTime   http   ruby-doc org stdlib-1 9 2 libdoc date rdoc DateTime html method-i-to date  This instance method doesn t appear to be present in earlier versions like 1 8 7

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For old Ruby  1 8 x    myDate   Date parse myDateTime to s

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I recently wrote a gem to simplify this process and to neaten up your views  etc etc   Check it out at  http   github com platform45 easy dates

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