How to get a well formatted Timespan

Rails
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Hi there,

i have some problems getting a timespan to a nice string. I have a
Time when my db entry was created. Now i want to output how old this
entry is.

When i subtract the Time from Time.now i get an float value but cannot
create some new time from this value to get an Formatted string of the
Timespan it presents. What can i use to create an output string for
this?

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On Dec 21, 2007, at 4:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:

this?
Subtracting one Time from another gives you the difference in seconds.
If you want some nice English descriptive phrase, such as “about one
month,” look at the distance_of_time_in_words Date Helpers:

http://railsmanual.com/module/ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper#distance_of_time_in_words_to_now