1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
index cdf606f28c..df419a6e63 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date/conversions.rb
@@ -13,14 +13,17 @@ class Date
       day_format = ActiveSupport::Inflector.ordinalize(date.day)
       date.strftime("%B #{day_format}, %Y") # => "April 25th, 2007"
     },
-    :rfc822       => '%e %b %Y'
+    :rfc822       => '%e %b %Y',
+    :iso8601      => lambda { |date| date.iso8601 }
   }
 
   # Ruby 1.9 has Date#to_time which converts to localtime only.
   remove_method :to_time
 
-  # Ruby 1.9 has Date#xmlschema which converts to a string without the time component.
-  remove_method :xmlschema
+  # Ruby 1.9 has Date#xmlschema which converts to a string without the time
+  # component. This removal may generate an issue on FreeBSD, that's why we
+  # need to use remove_possible_method here
+  remove_possible_method :xmlschema
 
   # Convert to a formatted string. See DATE_FORMATS for predefined formats.
   #
@@ -35,13 +38,14 @@ class Date
   #   date.to_formatted_s(:long)          # => "November 10, 2007"
   #   date.to_formatted_s(:long_ordinal)  # => "November 10th, 2007"
   #   date.to_formatted_s(:rfc822)        # => "10 Nov 2007"
+  #   date.to_formatted_s(:iso8601)       # => "2007-11-10"
   #
-  # == Adding your own time formats to to_formatted_s
+  # == Adding your own date formats to to_formatted_s
   # You can add your own formats to the Date::DATE_FORMATS hash.
   # Use the format name as the hash key and either a strftime string
   # or Proc instance that takes a date argument as the value.
   #
-  #   # config/initializers/time_formats.rb
+  #   # config/initializers/date_formats.rb
   #   Date::DATE_FORMATS[:month_and_year] = '%B %Y'
   #   Date::DATE_FORMATS[:short_ordinal] = ->(date) { date.strftime("%B #{date.day.ordinalize}") }
   def to_formatted_s(format = :default)