Rails shorter “time_ago_in_words”

Question

Is there a different time calculation in rails besides \"time_ago_in_words\"?? I want to be able to use just \'h\' for hours \'d\' days \'m\' for months... ex. 3d, or 4h, or 5m<

Answer 1

The components that make up this string can be localised, and are in the datetime.distance_in_words namespace

For example stick

en:
  datetime:
    distance_in_words:
      x_minutes:
        one: "1m"
        other: "%{count}m"

And rails will say 10m instead of 10 minutes. Repeat as needed for hours, seconds days etc. you can check locales/en.yml in action_view for all the keys.

If you only want the short format you could create a pseudo locale that only used those keys and use it like so

time_ago_in_words created_at, false, :locale => :en_abbrev