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Using date ordinals in Rails through an I18n time format.
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en.rb
# This goes in config/locales/en.rb (*not* en.yml)
{
:en => {
:time => {
:formats => {
:full => lambda { |time, _| "%H:%M | %A, #{time.day.ordinalize} %B %Y" }
}
}
}
}
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template.html.erb
<%= l(Time.now, :format => :full) %>
<!-- 14:50 | Wednesday, 13th March 2013 -->
@danielricecodes
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Wow. I've been working with Rails since version 1 and I am still learning new tricks.

@hoffmanc
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hoffmanc commented Mar 7, 2019 •
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since 0.13 here and I agree 👍

@letmein
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letmein commented Jun 3, 2021

Thanks for sharing it 👍

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