“Ago” date/time functions in Ruby/Rails

Question

I was wondering if there\'s a way in Rails to calculate time stamp like - half a minute ago, 2 minute ago, 1 day ago etc. Something like twitter real time date stamp.

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Answer 1

You can use:

10.minutes.ago
2.days.since

Or in your views you have the helpers:

distance_of_time_in_words(from_time, to_time)
time_ago_in_words(from_time)

Check the API for details and more options.