Date length in english plugin/built in?

Rails
1

Is there a plugin or built in function for converting a date interval
into the English equivalent? For example, “So and so posted this 45
minutes ago”.

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Nathan P. Verni wrote:

Is there a plugin or built in function for converting a date interval
into the English equivalent? For example, ?So and so posted this 45
minutes ago?.

The helper function time_ago_in_words does this.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html#M000467

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Philip R.
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