How to parse days/hours/minutes/seconds in ruby?

Question

Is there a gem or something to parse strings like \"4h 30m\" \"1d 4h\" -- sort of like the estimates in JIRA or task planners, maybe, with internationalization?

Answer 1

Parse into what though?

This will parse into a Hash:

"4h 30m".split(/\s/).each{|i| h[i.gsub(/\d+/,"")] = i.gsub(/\w/,"")}

Sorry. not familiar with JIRA....