Dateformat: x minutes ago

Hi guys,

Is there a standard function/gem in rails that lets me format times in a
facebookish way, like “x minutes ago”? Ideally one that works well
together
with a similar jquery library for live updates?

Thanks
Martin

I don’t know of a good gem solution (though it would be great if there
were
one because this is a problem that has been solved and re-solved too
many
times) but DHH did a blog post a few years back that explains exactly
how to
implement this in a relatively simple way.

Rails has inbuilt helpers for such kind of stuff.
Check out the following docs, method like distance_of_time_in_words
Rails 2.3

http://api.rubyonrails.org/v2.3.10/classes/ActionView/Helpers/DateHelper.html
Rails 3.0

Awesome, thank you.

Rails rocks!

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Chirag [email protected]
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