title: Ruby and Rails "Date.today" format
body: <p>In IRB, if I run following commands:</p>
  
  <pre><code>require 'date'
  Date.today
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the following output:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>=&gt; #&lt;Date: 2015-09-26 ((2457292j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But in Rails console, if I run <code>Date.today</code>, I get this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>=&gt; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I looked at Rails' <a href="https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/calculations.rb" rel="noreferrer">Date class</a> but can't find how Rails' <code>Date.today</code> displays the output differently than Ruby's output.</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody tell, in Rails how <code>Date.today</code> or <code>Date.tomorrow</code> formats the date to display nicely?</p>