Display Date with ruby

Question

This is my date 20100816 and it integer date.

How to display it like 08/16/2010?

Answer 1

You can use the Date.strptime method to read a date in a given format and strftime to print it out in another format:

require 'date'
intdate = 20100816
Date.strptime(intdate.to_s, "%Y%m%d").strftime("%m/%d/%Y")
#=> "08/16/2010"

Answer 2

You can use the Date.parse method and strftime to format the date

Date.parse(20100816.to_s).strftime("%m/%d/%Y")