Convert duration to hours:minutes:seconds (or similar) in Rails 3 or Ruby

Question

I have a feeling there is a simple/built-in way to do this but I can\'t find it.

I have a duration (in seconds) in an integer and I want to display it in a friendly form

Answer 1

Shout out to @joshuapinter who gave the best answer (in the form of a comment).

Use the drop-in replacement dotiw gem to gain more control over the accuracy of the output to suit different needs:

https://github.com/radar/distance_of_time_in_words

Sample view code:

%label
  Logoff after:
  - expire_in = distance_of_time_in_words(Time.now, Time.now + user.custom_timeout.minutes, :only => [:minutes, :hours, :days])
  = expire_in

Resulting in something like this:

Logoff after: 1 day, 13 hours, and 20 minutes