DateTimeFormats

Almost every Rails project I start requires the use of custom formats for outputting Time. It's pretty trivial to add to a project, but I always forget the constant name for the initializer. It's Time::DATE_FORMATS. I inevitably have to google or look in previous projects. Not a big deal, but nonetheless, it's unnecessary.

This Gem provides some common formats as well allowing you to define your own in a date_time_formats.yml file.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'date_time_formats'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install date_time_formats

DateTimeFormats adds support for common formats on the "Time#to_s" method

Time.now.to_s(:year)  # => 2012
Time.now.to_s(:slash) # => 1/01/2012

DateTimeFormats comes with a default set of formats. You can define your own by adding a config/date_time_formats.yml file to your Rails app. The syntax is simple key value YAML.

# config/date_time_formats.yml
year_and_day: "%Y-%d"

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request