Question

–still learning rails here.. I want to write a conditional statement such as:

 if variable.created_at.method_for_checking_if_older_than(10 minutes)
     #code
 end

What statement or method can i use on a created_at value to fulfil the purpose of checking if it is older than a certain number of minutes/hours etc..?

Answer 1

You’re looking for this:

if variable.created_at < 10.minutes.ago
    #code
end

Rails adds several such methods to the standard Ruby Numeric class, a full list is available from the Rails API documentation:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Numeric.html