Dateformat: x minutes ago

[Martin Wawrusch]

Hi guys,

Is there a standard function/gem in rails that lets me format times in a facebookish way, like "x minutes ago"? Ideally one that works well together with a similar jquery library for live updates?

Thanks

Martin

[Chris Kottom]

I don't know of a good gem solution (though it would be great if there were one because this is a problem that has been solved and re-solved too many times) but DHH did a blog post a few years back that explains exactly how to implement this in a relatively simple way.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1557-javascript-makes-relative-times-compatible-with-caching

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[Chirag]

Rails has inbuilt helpers for such kind of stuff.

Check out the following docs, method like distance_of_time_in_words

Rails 2.3 - http://api.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.10/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html

Rails 3.0 - http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html

[Martin Wawrusch]

Awesome, thank you.

Rails rocks!

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