Transform DateTime into simple Date in Ruby on Rails

DateTime#to_date does exist with ActiveSupport:

$ irb>> DateTime.new.to_dateNoMethodError: undefined method 'to_date' for #<DateTime: -1/2,0,2299161>    from (irb):1>> require 'active_support/core_ext'=> true>> DateTime.new.to_date=> Mon, 01 Jan -4712

Hello collimarco :) you can use ruby strftime method to create ur own date/time display.

time.strftime( string ) => string

  %a - The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'')  %A - The  full  weekday  name (``Sunday'')  %b - The abbreviated month name (``Jan'')  %B - The  full  month  name (``January'')  %c - The preferred local date and time representation  %d - Day of the month (01..31)  %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock (00..23)  %I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock (01..12)  %j - Day of the year (001..366)  %m - Month of the year (01..12)  %M - Minute of the hour (00..59)  %p - Meridian indicator (``AM''  or  ``PM'')  %S - Second of the minute (00..60)  %U - Week  number  of the current year,          starting with the first Sunday as the first          day of the first week (00..53)  %W - Week  number  of the current year,          starting with the first Monday as the first          day of the first week (00..53)  %w - Day of the week (Sunday is 0, 0..6)  %x - Preferred representation for the date alone, no time  %X - Preferred representation for the time alone, no date  %y - Year without a century (00..99)  %Y - Year with century  %Z - Time zone name  %% - Literal ``%'' character   t = Time.now   t.strftime("Printed on %m/%d/%Y")   #=> "Printed on 04/09/2003"   t.strftime("at %I:%M%p")            #=> "at 08:56AM"

In Ruby 1.9.2 and above they added a .to_date function to DateTime:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.2/libdoc/date/rdoc/DateTime.html#method-i-to_date

This instance method doesn't appear to be present in earlier versions like 1.8.7.