Creating a custom function that can be called from an instance variable

Rails
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Hello all,

I have a whole bunch of time stamps which I need to display in
fractional hours or fractional days as the case may be.

Is there any chance I could do something like this:
<>
def HourDisp
…
end
@time = 12:30:00

<>
<%= @time.HourDisp %>

Shows:
12.5

Thank You very much@

2

On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Nik wrote:

end
@time = 12:30:00

<>
<%= @time.HourDisp %>

Shows:
12.5

Nik -

Create a helper method named say “time_as_fraction” and pass your time
into it. Make that method do whatever munging you need it to do.

-philip

3

So:
#t in hh:mm:ss format
def HourDisp(t)
#t gets split in three parts hh,mm, and ss
new_t = t.split(’:’)
h=new_t[0] + new_t[1]/60 + new_t[2]/3600
return h
end

<>
<%= HourDisp(12:30:00) %>
#12.5

Thank You So Much Philip!

4

I tried it and I got it to work, Philip!

Thank You so much for your time. It’s probably not my place to say
that this stuff is probably elementary. This is why: Thank you so much
for your time!!

Cheers!