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Hi, I always see RoR pages showing the elapsed time like that ''Published 3 days, 23 hour and 5 minutes ago'' ''Published less than 3 minutes ago'' I guess this conversion can be done using a Rails function, however I can''t find it. Does somebody know its name?? Thanks a lot Peter

Hi, Is it possible to test helper/view methods from script/console. I want to test the output of methods like distance_of_time_in_words. But it won''t let me from the console. What am I missing? TIA Luke -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on

Hi There, As I have learned the hard way, let me discuss my question, idea or feature here before doing actual work on it... distance_of_time_in_words_to_now() seems to be unable to tell if this distance is in the future or in the past. I''d really like to see ''in 5 days'' or ''5 days ago'' depending on, well, if it was 5 days ago or will be in 5

I am not the Ruby aficionado yet, if I have created_on ...timestamp. What is a ruby way of getting the hours/minutes/seconds ago. is there some class that has this implemented. For example: Posted on 3/28/2006 Show a time with: posted: 1 day ago ... something along those lines. -- Berlin Brown (ramaza3 on freenode) http://www.newspiritcompany.com also checkout alpha version of botverse:

Hi, My helper specs were going ok until I added a call to a rails DateHelper method in one of my helpers http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/ DateHelper.html#M000574 The helper runs fine from my view templates, just dies in the spec test. I boiled my question down to a simple (not too useful) example. I''m not sure what I''m missing. #

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)

I''m trying to display a list of pages in xml. I want to change page.update_at to distance_of_time_in_words_to_now. However whenever I run it I get an error saying: undefined method `distance_of_time_in_words_to_now'' I know I can just go the rails api and copy the source, but there must be another way. def list @page = Page.find(:all, :order => "updated_at desc")

HEllo, I have the following problem with rails, I am new in this...is there anyone who explain to me what´s happens? Thanks See below: NoMethodError in Classified#show Showing app/views/classified/show.rhtml where line #17 raised: undefined method `updated_at'' for #<Classified:0x686c5e4> Extracted source (around line #17): 14: 15: <strong>Date Posted:</strong>

any idea how to use distance_of_time_in_words_to_now? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I wondered if anyone could help me with turning the following in ERB into HAML. I''m VERY new with HAML: ---- <div class="block-element span-7 colborder"> <span class="rightside blue-hue no_decor"><%= link_to "New Order", new_order_path, :remote => true %></span> <h3>Today''s Activity</h3> <hr>

All, My initial list is rather busy. I would like to shorten the created_on and updated_on fields to just display the date, not the time. Best wold be a simple 12/28/05 type of presentation. I''ve found the format helpers in rdoc. (ie. distance_of_time_in_words_to_now ), but none seem to be what I''m looking for. How do I control the date format of a timestamp field? Thanks

hi, Is there an easy way of calculating the difference in months between two dates in a controller. thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I wanted the distance_of_time_in_words_to_now method to have '' ago'' suffixed to it when the date is in the past, I assumed this would be the default behaviour but apparently not. I know of a REALLY messy way that i could solve this with, but it''s so ugly I can''t be bothered Does anybody have an easy, elegant solution?

When someone comments on my site, I would like to store the user''s name as a cookie, and display it the next time they return. I really don''t know how to do this. Does this use the cgi library? As most things with ruby, I would imagine it to be quite simple... could anyone post a code snippet as to how this would work??? Thanks... -- Posted via

There is <%= distance_of_time_in_words(Time.now, @a_time) %> before xzy.<BR /> <!-- ^ this gives 2279 days --> This does not work because when @a_time is stored, even though it is a Time field and the class is Time, it includes a date. The Date isn''t even that days date its the year 2000, hence the 2279 days ago. So how do I set the date part of @a_time (a Time

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

Hi. When I read Dave and Davids excellent book "Agile Web Development with Rails" the first time, I was particularly impressed with the following statement: 1.day.from_now It was used in a test class to set the date of tomorrow dynamically. Since it was enclosed in in ERb tags, I assumed this was a normal ruby statement, but when I tried it in my irb, i get the following error:

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

Hey, I''m designing an app which displays the events near a user in RoR. I''m using the beat forum to facilitate user management/sessions/etc. I''ve edited the sessions table in the Beast database to contain a "session_location" value and what I''d like to do is to set this to the users location when they log in. This would allow them to change their

Hi, I need a method similar to "distance_of_time_in_words_to_now" to be used in the controller. "distance_of_time_in_words_to_now" methods work only in view. Thanks, Ratnavel. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: