Question

I’m baffled how to do this.

I need to take a datetime object and get the duration in hours, days, whatever, to the current time.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Getting the duration in seconds is easy:

>> foo = Time.new => Mon Dec 29 18:23:51 +0100 2008 >> bar = Time.new => Mon Dec 29 18:23:56 +0100 2008 >> print bar - foo 5.104063=> nil 

So, a little over five seconds.

But to present this in a somewhat more human-friendly form, you’ll need a third-party addition, like time_period_to_s, or the Duration package.