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Is there a plugin or built in function for converting a date interval into the English equivalent? For example, "So and so posted this 45 minutes ago". -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060801/e33b04d1/attachment.html

When printing out the results of my "updated_at" field, I''d like to be able to print it as "Updated 5 days ago" instead of "Updated on 7/14/06." I''ve seen many blogs do this, is there an easy way to do it through rails / ruby? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

HI I don''t understand what happen .. if I use the script/console : >> include ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper => Object >> include GLoc => Object >> time_ago_in_words(Time.now, include_seconds = false) => "moins d''une minute" I get the correct answer.. but I I write in my view <%= time_ago_in_words(Time.now, include_seconds = false)

Heya everyone! I am quite new to Rails and I am reading AWDwR. I am at Task E "Check Out!". I understand it quite well, but I have a problem with the last playground exercise: Add a Table which contains the payment types. All goes well, but I am not sure whether I should use has_many or has_one(as in the Playground wiki at http://wiki.pragprog.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/PT-E-3). I use the

Hey all, Chronic will parse a date range in console: Chronic.parse(1/1/2011 - 1/1/2012, :guess => false) => 2012-01-01 12:00:00 -0500..2012-01-01 12:00:01 -0500 However, when I use logger to check if it''s parsing in application, it is not: logger.info "The value of history date is #{history_date}" => The value of history date is 1/1/2011 - 1/1/2012

I''ve found an issue when trying to use the time_ago_in_words and distance_of_time_in_words from action view''s date_helper.rb Using SQL Server, I have a datetime column that gets returned as: "2007/02/21 09:54:00". When I pass this to time_ago_in_words (which just passes on to distance_of_time_in_words) it miscalculates the difference as "9 hours" (...um yeah,

Hi everyone, I would need to know if RoR follow any policy for version naming; I mean, something like linux´s kernel does or similar. For instance, kernel uses numbers separated in groups by dots (i.e. pre 2.6 - AA.BB.CC). These groups mean differents fixtures, bugs fixed... I will start a big proyect from scratch with rails and I want to choose now a standart to use and avoid future problems

Hello: I have radio buttons like this: <% fields_for :goalhist do |g| %> <table> <tr> <td align=left><%= radio_button_tag (''duedate'', 0, checked = false, options = {:onclick => ""}) %> &nbsp;&nbsp;Start now </td> </tr> <tr id="detailed" style="display: none"><td colspan=2>

All I want to do is find the objects that were created today under the ''created_on'' column. I''ve tried many ways, here is one example using the chronic gem. @products = Product.find_all_by_created_on(Chronic.parse(''today'')) I must be missing something right in front of me .... Thanks for any help.

I''m getting this error when I try to update a list using ajax after submitting some data: undefined method `time_ago_in_words'' for #<IdeaController:0x3a38ae8> the LOC is this: render_text "<li>" + @params[:idea][:title] + "<br />by " + @params[:idea][:author] + " | " & time_ago_in_words(Time.now) & " ago | " +

Does anyone have any ideas off the top of there head how to easily construct a date helper as one would see in Rails? Thanks, Michael Gorsuch http://www.styledbits.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/camping-list/attachments/20061022/7dda5a52/attachment.html

when retreiving a date from a DATETIME field in a database, is there a way to set the date to the value of the DB in the view? It seems to always default to the current date... if I have a field called birthdate in the users table and i do @user = User.find(@params[:id]) in my view i have a <%= date_select ''birthdate'',''user'' %> but dont know how to

My application accepts a form to create multiple large(100''s of MB) temporary files and then zip''s them up to send off to a user. I have the files constructed, and the zipping working. The problem is that if I use send_file to send the zip off to the user, I cannot delete the file afterwards as it seems send_file forks off another process and deletes the file before the

I''d like to have a count down to a certain date, but display it in words, such as "123 days away" or something. I''m aware of the function "distance_of_time_in_words_to_now()", which will display "about 6 hours" or "12 days" or something like that, but how can I get it to reverse? Pass it a date for future reference, then it will error

Hey all, i''m rather new to rails and was curious if ActiveRecord implemented anything like is_active where the delete functions would just mark records as inactive, vs deleting rows. (similar to created_at, etc). I need a history of transactions, and this is how I would code in other languages. Any advice? Is there are smarter way to implement this? Thanks in advance! -- Posted via

Hi all, Using the Chronic.parse method, I see some weird behavior. Perhaps someone can set me straight or confirm that it is indeed weird. Note that the date changes to one day earlier in the last example below. Since the date and time are uniquely specified using the hh:mm:ss notation -- though in the future -- I would expect the same result as when I specify the time as in

I am trying to push some view logic into a helper. The thought is that this is a step towards having the business logic in the helper rather than the view. However, I''m essentially wrapping the checks around an eventual call to date_select(). The problem I''m having is that the application complains that it doesn''t know about date_select(). I''m sure (or

Look at your 1.day.from_now and see if it''s like this: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:45:42 UTC +00:00 If you also have the "UTC +00:00", it means that you timezone is the GMT (and I think that it isn''t your real timezone). For example, my timezone is 3 hours after the GMT, so the right timezone would be something like this: Sat Oct 11 23:48:41 -0300 2008 At your

Let''s try this one... I have Apache 2.0.55 set up and also have Mongrel set up. I have Radiant set up running under Mongrel, and have Apache proxying to the Mongrel instance. That all seems to be working fine. I thought I''d modify the settings a bit to let Apache serve up the static files - images, stylesheets, etc. I have it set up, and am not getting any errors. However.

Hey all, I am getting this error: NoMethodError (undefined method `gsub!'' for 2012-01-22 17:00:00 -0500..2012-01-23 00:00:00 -0500:Chronic::Span): in this code: date_range = Chronic.parse(the_date, :guess => false) reports.sum_distance_by_date(date_range).each do |d| u[:m] << d end def