Egge: New page: Here's yet another timeago function which I found, for those who don't want to include a full Rails framework in your Ruby script. Sorry - I don't remember where I copied this function fr...

2008-10-01T03:15:29Z

New page: Here's yet another timeago function which I found, for those who don't want to include a full Rails framework in your Ruby script. Sorry - I don't remember where I copied this function fr...

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Here's yet another timeago function which I found, for those who don't want to include a full Rails framework in your Ruby script. Sorry - I don't remember where I copied this function from.

<geshi lang="ruby">
def pluralize(count, s)
if count == 1 then
count.to_s + ' ' + s
else
count.to_s + ' ' + s + 's'
end
end

# options
# :start_date, sets the time to measure against, defaults to now
# :later, changes the adjective and measures time forward
# :round, sets the unit of measure 1 = seconds, 2 = minutes, 3 hours, 4 days, 5 weeks, 6 months, 7 years (yuck!)
# :max_seconds, sets the maximimum practical number of seconds before just referring to the actual time
# :date_format, used with <tt>to_formatted_s<tt>
def timeago(original, options = {})
start_date = options.delete(:start_date) || Time.now
later = options.delete(:later) || false
round = options.delete(:round) || 7
max_seconds = options.delete(:max_seconds) || 32556926
date_format = options.delete(:date_format) || :default

# array of time period chunks
chunks = [
[60 * 60 * 24 * 365 , "year"],
[60 * 60 * 24 * 30 , "month"],
[60 * 60 * 24 * 7, "week"],
[60 * 60 * 24 , "day"],
[60 * 60 , "hour"],
[60 , "minute"],
[1 , "second"]
]

if later
since = original.to_i - start_date.to_i
else
since = start_date.to_i - original.to_i
end
time = []

if since < max_seconds
# Loop trough all the chunks
totaltime = 0

for chunk in chunks[0..round]
seconds = chunk[0]
name = chunk[1]

count = ((since - totaltime) / seconds).floor
time << pluralize(count, name) unless count == 0

if time.size == 2 then
break
end
totaltime += count * seconds
end

if time.empty?
"less than a #{chunks[round-1][1]} ago"
else
"#{time.join(', ')} #{later ? 'later' : 'ago'}"
end
else
original.to_formatted_s(date_format)
end
end

</geshi>

[[Category:Ruby]]

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