Oh wait, in my hurry to point to my useless blog I didn't read your question properly and that is probably not what you're after..
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Hugh Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote about this a while ago: > http://hughevans.net/2008/09/25/date-range-string-conversions > Cheers, > Hugh > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Ryan Bigg <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Ryan Bigg >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
