Persian date and numbers in ruby / ruby on rails

persian_number.md

For persian_date add jalalidate to your gemfiles, then add this to ApplicationHelper as helper (or any other place you want to use).

Default date format here is like (یک‌شنبه ۲۹ دی ۱۳۹۲ - ۰۳:۱۰) for more format options see.

unpack Snippet from a question in stackoverflow

module ApplicationHelper
  def persian_numbers(str)
    str ? str.unpack('U*').map{ |e| (0..9).to_a.include?(e-48) ? e + 1728 : e }.pack('U*') : ''
  end

  def persian_date(date)
    date ? persian_numbers(JalaliDate.new(date).format("%A %d %b %Y - %H:%m")) : ''
  end
end