time stamp display in the view

hi all,

   in my rails application.. i am displaying the dtae time.. which is coming from the database which property is timestamp.. so in my view the time is displaying as " Wed Apr 09 16:12:52 +0530 2008 ".. but that in not which i was actually.. i need to display only themonth, date and time.. thats it.. just like " Apr 09 16:12 " this.. how to get the time like this and display.. can any one fine\d me a solution for this aswell..

thankyou.

  with regards, barak

Use: to_formatted_s(format = :default)

for example commentDate.to_formatted_s(:db)

As per Rails docs:

to_formatted_s(format = :default)

Convert to a formatted string - see DATE_FORMATS for predefined formats. You can also add your own formats to the DATE_FORMATS constant and use them with this method.

This method is also aliased as to_s. Examples:

  date = Date.new(2007, 11, 10) # => Sat, 10 Nov 2007

  date.to_formatted_s(:db) # => "2007-11-10"   date.to_s(:db) # => "2007-11-10"

  date.to_formatted_s(:short) # => "10 Nov"   date.to_formatted_s(:long) # => "November 10, 2007"   date.to_formatted_s(:long_ordinal) # => "November 10th, 2007"   date.to_formatted_s(:rfc822) # => "10 Nov 2007"

-Al