erro strftime ao mudar meu banco de dados de sqlite3 para mysql no Rails4

Recentemente eu mudei meu banco de dados de sqlite3 para mysql.When executei meu projeto estou recebendo esse erro em um dos arquivos que está usando esta consulta.

date = Date.today + 1

@employees = Employee.where ("status =? AND strftime ('% d /% m', date_of_birth) =?", "Ativo", date.strftime ('% d /% m')

ActionView::Template::Error (Mysql2::Error: FUNCTION hrms_development.strftime does not exist: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `employees` WHERE (status = 'Active' AND strftime('%d/%m', date_of_birth) = '28/03')):
    210:             
    211:               <% date = Date.today %>
    212:              <% @employees = Employee.where("status = ? AND strftime('%d/%m', date_of_birth) = ?", "Active" , date.strftime('%d/%m')) %>
    213:             <% if @employees.empty? %>
    214:              
    215:             <%else%>
    216:               <% @employees.each do |e| %>
  app/views/home/_group_admin.html.erb:213:in `_app_views_home__group_admin_html_erb___2522183600721478262_91627100'
  app/views/home/index.html.erb:17:in `_app_views_home_index_html_erb__2772204906267359422_86967120'



ActionView::Template::Error: Mysql2::Error: FUNCTION hrms_development.strftime does not exist: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `employees` WHERE (status = 'Active' AND strftime('%d/%m', date_of_birth) = '28/03')