Formating date Time in Rails

You can format Date field by using strftime function

example :

Time.now()
=> Wed Dec 12 15:48:59 +0530 2007

Time.now().strftime("%d/%m/%y %H:%M")
=> "12/12/07 15:50"

Here's the (shortened) table for strftime.

%a  weekday name.
%A  weekday name (full).
%b  month name.
%B  month name (full).
%c  date and time (locale)
%d  day of month [01,31].
%H  hour [00,23].
%I  hour [01,12].
%j  day of year [001,366].
%m  month [01,12].
%M  minute [00,59].
%p  AM or PM
%S  Second [00,61]
%U  week of year (Sunday)[00,53].
w  weekday [0(Sunday),6].
W  week of year (Monday)[00,53].
x  date (locale).
%X  time (locale).
%y  year [00,99].
%Y  year [2000].
%Z  timezone name.