I found some old messages about this, but can't find a solution.
The default rails date format for postgres is yyyy-mm-dd. While I have no problem with this, users who were trained after the millennium non- event are pretty entrenched in mm/dd/yyyy.
You can set the default date format in environment.rb to
Date::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%m/%d/%Y"
At least in rails3 and it nicely formats the dates in that format. But if you enter a date in that format, it will set it to nil.
If you have validation on the date, it will fail.
I think postgres can be set to different options but don't know how to do that globally.
Is there any solution to setting rails to get and put dates using mm/ dd/yyyy?
Steve