Recently, I encountered an issue with an ajax call that retrieves a date from the database. The date is stored as a double in the database and then converted to a string. I used Date.parse to change it into a date object and used strftime to format it. However, a problem arose when updating the view using jQuery - it somehow interpreted '/' as division, resulting in a decimal value that was a result of month divided by day divided by year.
Below is the code snippet from my js.erb file:
$('#debug').html(<%= @sdate.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")%>)
Removing the '/' and keeping just "%m%d%Y" displayed the date correctly. I also attempted moving the formatting logic to the controller and outputting the result to the console, which showed the correct date. However, the issue persisted in the view due to how jQuery was interpreting the code. Can anyone provide guidance on how to resolve this issue so that the date displays correctly in the view? Thank you