From: John Mettraux <jmettraux@...>
Date: 2008-09-28T14:19:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing a time span

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Eric Marthinsen
<emarthinsen@agilecommerce.com> wrote:
> Oh, and it looks like Duration doesn't parse the way I want to, so any
> other ideas would be much appreciated.

Hi,

I have something like that available from the "rufus-scheduler" gem :

http://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler
http://rufus.rubyforge.org/rufus-scheduler/classes/Rufus.html#M000006

---8<---
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'rufus/scheduler'
 Rufus.parse_time_string "500"    # => 0.5
 Rufus.parse_time_string "1000"     # => 1.0
 Rufus.parse_time_string "1h"     # => 3600.0
 Rufus.parse_time_string "1h10s"    # => 3610.0
 Rufus.parse_time_string "1w2d"     # => 777600.0
--->8---


Best regards,

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