Converting a time to a string is a pretty common thing to do in Ruby. strftime
is the method one would use to convert time to a string.
Here are some examples:
Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-d %H:%M:S") #=> "2016-07-27 08:45:42"
This can be simplified even further
Time.now.strftime("%F %X") #=> "2016-07-27 08:45:42"