How do I get elapsed time in milliseconds in Ruby?

Question

If I have a Time object got from :

Time.now

and later I instantiate another object with that same line, how can I see how many

Answer 1

As stated already, you can operate on Time objects as if they were numeric (or floating point) values. These operations result in second resolution which can easily be converted.

For example:

def time_diff_milli(start, finish)
   (finish - start) * 1000.0
end

t1 = Time.now
# arbitrary elapsed time
t2 = Time.now

msecs = time_diff_milli t1, t2

You will need to decide whether to truncate that or not.