With the standard distance_of_time_in_words, you'll get something like
"about 2 months".

I've overridden it in my plugin dotiw: http://github.com/radar/dotiw so you
can specify :only => [:months, days] as an option for
distance_of_time_in_words and it'll output in the syntax you would like.

HTH,
Ryan

2009/10/23 Xavier Shay <[email protected]>

>
>  > (Date.new(2010, 1, 3) - Date.today).days
> => 72 days # My birthday!
>
> But I want:
> => 2 months and 11 days
>
> Is there a built in activesupport way to do this? I guess I want to
> normalize a date range.
>
> xav
>
> >
>


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Ryan Bigg

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