Question

How can I make a helper that will tell me how many weeks ago (rounded down) with rails? It could be based of the time_ago_in_words helper however I’d want it to return: “last week” then afterwards just two weeks ago, three weeks ago, etc…

Answer 1

Try this:

def my_time_ago_in_words(from_time, include_seconds = false)
  to_time   = Time.now
  weeks_ago = ((to_time - from_time)/1.week).abs
  [nil, "last week", "two weeks ago", "three weeks ago"][weeks_ago] || 
      distance_of_time_in_words(from_time, to_time, include_seconds)
end

This function will behave the same as time_ago_in_words. When the from_time is between 1 – 3 week ago, this will print last week, two weeks ago, three weeks ago otherwise it will print the usual.