ruby-on-railsrubylocalizationrails-i18nstrftime

Rails: How to make Date strftime aware of the default locale?

I have my default locale set in the environment.rb as de (German).

I also see all the error messages in German, so the locale is picked up by the server. But when I try to print date with strftime like following:

some_date.strftime('%B, %y')

It prints in English (January, 11), and not the expected German (Januar, 11).

How can I print the date according to the default locale?

Solution

  • Use the l (alias for localize) method instead of raw strftime, like this:

    l(date, format: '%B %d, in the year %Y')

    See here for more information.

    You can also define 'named' formats, a couple of them (short, long) are already predefined.