format a date in to the format month day, year in ruby

To format a date in the format month day, year in Ruby, you can use the strftime method on a Date object. Here is an example:

main.rb
require 'date'

date = Date.today # Today's date as a Date object
formatted_date = date.strftime("%B %d, %Y") # Format the date as "month day, year"

puts formatted_date # Outputs something like "September 29, 2021"
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In the strftime method, the %B directive represents the full month name, %d represents the day of the month with leading zeros, and %Y represents the year with century as a decimal number. The resulting string will be in the format "month day, year" (e.g. "September 29, 2021").

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