I can't find a strftime() format that will output the hour without the leading zero. For instance 6:20 will be instead 06:20. This just looks a little sloppy. I created a datetime.rb intializer which will contain custom datetime formats for my applicatio...

%e # rather than %d Time.now.strftime("%e")

If you want to insert a datetime that matches the default mysql datetime type format use this date('Y-m-d H:i:s');