From: thefed <fedzor@...>
Date: 2007-12-03T06:18:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Name this method...


On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Daniel Waite wrote:

> First off, if there's already a method that does this please point it
> out; I couldn't find one so I wrote my own.
>
> It's currently called #to_elapsed_time and is attached to Fixnum. What
> it does...
>
>>> 10.to_elapsed_time
> => {:days=>0, :minutes=>0, :seconds=>10, :hours=>0}
>>> 75.to_elapsed_time
> => {:days=>0, :minutes=>1, :seconds=>15, :hours=>0}
>>> 75018.to_elapsed_time
> => {:days=>0, :minutes=>50, :seconds=>18, :hours=>20}
>>> 789010.to_elapsed_time
> => {:days=>9, :minutes=>10, :seconds=>10, :hours=>3}

That's DEFINITELY a nice method to have around :-)

Unfortunately....

> started = Time.now
> ended = Time.now + some_time_into_the_future
> elapsed = (ended.to_i - started.to_i).to_elapsed_time

puts ended - started
	#=> Some Time

already works

Don't trash your method though! It will probably come in handy one day

Ari Brown
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