ActiveRecordDateFormatted

Add to your Gemfile: gem 'active_record_date_formatted'

And that's it.

Now for every active record model's date attribute, you have two additional methods, for example, if the model is Person and the attribute name is birthdate, you get following methods:

• birthdate_formatted
• birthdate_formatted=(formatted_date)

The formatted methods use date.formats.default format.

For example for german locale:

de:
  date:
    formats:
      default: "%d.%m.%Y" 

I18n.locale = :de
Person.first.birthdate_formatted   # => "12.04.1981"
Person.first.birthdate_formatted = "24.04.1981"
I18n.locale = :en
Person.first.birthdate_formatted   # => "1981-04-12"
Person.first.birthdate_formatted = "1981-04-24"

Now you can use the *_formatted in your views, for example when using date pickers.

This project uses MIT-LICENSE.