Rails - May 2006 - distance_of_time_in_german_words

Hiall,

This could be useful for those of you producing websites in the german
language. Basically I copied the definition of the rails builtin
distance_of_time_in_words and extracted another method
german_words_for_distance_in_seconds. Just put these e.g. into module
ApplicationHelper and you can use it in all views.

  def distance_of_time_in_german_words(from_time, to_time = 0,
include_seconds = false)
    from_time = from_time.to_time if from_time.respond_to?(:to_time)
    to_time = to_time.to_time if to_time.respond_to?(:to_time)
    distance_in_seconds = ((to_time - from_time).abs).round

    german_words_for_distance_in_seconds(distance_in_seconds)

  end

  def german_words_for_distance_in_seconds(distance_in_seconds)

    distance_in_minutes = ((distance_in_seconds.abs)/60).round

    case distance_in_minutes
      when 0..1
        return (distance_in_minutes==0) ? ''weniger als eine
Minute'' :
''1 Minute'' unless include_seconds
        case distance_in_seconds
          when 0..5   then ''weniger als 5 Sekunden''
          when 6..10  then ''weniger als 10 Sekunden''
          when 11..20 then ''weniger als 20 Sekunden''
          when 21..40 then ''eine halbe Minute''
          when 41..59 then ''weniger als 1 Minute''
          else             ''1 Minute''
        end

      when 2..45      then "#{distance_in_minutes} Minuten"
      when 46..90     then ''ca. 1 Stunde''
      when 90..1440   then "ca. #{(distance_in_minutes.to_f /
60.0).round} Stunden"
      when 1441..2880 then ''1 Tag''
      else                 "#{(distance_in_minutes / 1440).round}
Tage"
    end
  end

Maybe sometime this will be helpful for someone ...

cheers
Martin