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
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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