[Rails] postgresql date

Scott Barron scott at elitists.net
Wed Mar 2 14:08:41 GMT 2005


Enrico Teotti wrote:
> If I select my date column from the pgadmin I see that in the ddmmyyyy
> form, I've specified so in the postgresql config. When I query from
> rails I get the date in yyyymmdd someone knows why?
> Thanks
> Enrico
> 

Enrico,

ActiveRecord will convert this to the Ruby Date type, which will default 
to YYYY-MM-DD in its to_s method.  You can use the strftime method to 
display the date how you wish to display it.

-Scott
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