How do I format a date to mm/dd/yyyy in Ruby?

Question

In Perl you can do: ``` my $current_time = DateTime->now(); my $mdy = $current_time->mdy("/"); ``` What's the easiest way to do this in Ruby?

Accepted Answer

The `strftime` method can be used to format times:

```
Time.now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")
```

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