Rails - Jul 2006 - Converting Date string to Time Object

Hi,

I have MySQL model with created_on specified as :date. This means that the
day the record was created on is stored in the database as a string like
"2006-04-28". I want to be able output a something like "5 days
ago". From
looking in the API I''ve found "strftime" and
"*distance_of_time_in_words*".
Distance_of_time_in_words only accepts Time objects and integers, so I guess
my question is how do I convert "news.send("created_at")" to
either a Time
object or a integer? I''ve tried a few things like
"news.send("created_at").to_i"
but nothing works.

I''m sure that there is probably some helper which will let me do this
but
I''m not sure what it is.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Chris
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Try the to_time method

eg 

news.created_at.to_time

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Lloyd 
  To: Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org 
  Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:47 AM
  Subject: [Rails] Converting Date string to Time Object


  Hi,

  I have MySQL model with created_on specified as :date. This means that the day
the record was created on is stored in the database as a string like
"2006-04-28". I want to be able output a something like "5 days
ago". From looking in the API I''ve found " strftime" and
"distance_of_time_in_words". Distance_of_time_in_words only accepts
Time objects and integers, so I guess my question is how do I convert "
news.send("created_at")" to either a Time object or a integer?
I''ve tried a few things like
"news.send("created_at").to_i" but nothing works.

  I''m sure that there is probably some helper which will let me do this
but I''m not sure what it is.

  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

  Chris 


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