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Misha Moroshko
Misha Moroshko

Reputation: 171509

Rails 3: How to format a Date in other than English languages?

To format a Date in English I do:

Date.today.to_s(:long_ordinal)   # => September 28th, 2011

How could I format a date in Russian (or any other language) ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4887

Answers (2)

NARKOZ
NARKOZ

Reputation: 27961

Date formats and locales are defined in ActiveSupport. You can add these values to your locale file and modify them to fit your requirements.
Also check this for russian language.

Upvotes: 1

mliebelt
mliebelt

Reputation: 15525

There is the Internationalization API in Rails that explains how to do that. See for example section 3.2 Adding Date/Time Formats. 

<p><%= l Date.today, :format => :short %></p>

You can then add for your locale (russian?) a file ru.yml and include there the definition for your format.

# config/locales/ru.yml
ru:
  date:
    formats:
      short: "%m/%d/%Y"

See the section 4.4 Setting and Passing a Locale how to set the locale.

Upvotes: 3

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