Question

Does Ruby have a class that represents some period of time?

IE, 1 hour, 2 minutes, 3 seconds.

I realize there is the time class, but the constructor takes a year, month, and day. None of those are relevant to the abstraction that I’m trying to create.

Note: Working with Sinatra.

Answer 1

You might wish to look into the ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Numeric::Time module of Ruby on Rails. It allows you to do neat things like

1.hour
=> 3600 seconds
1.day.ago
=> Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:41:22 UTC +00:00

It greatly utilizes the Rails class ActiveSupport::Duration.