From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-11-09T09:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby print out time difference (duration) readily?

On Nov 5, 4:09 am, Jian Lin <blueskybre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can Ruby do something like this?
>
> irb(main):001:0> start =Time.now
> => Thu Nov 05 01:02:54 -0800 2009
>
> irb(main):002:0>Time.now - start
> => 25.239
>
> irb(main):003:0> (Time.now - start).duration
> => "25 seconds"

require 'chronic_duration'
ChronicDuration.output(Time.now - start, :format => :long)

# => "2 minutes 23 seconds"

See http://github.com/hpoydar/chronic_duration