How do you do relative time in Rails?

Question

I\'m writing a Rails application, but can\'t seem to find how to do relative time, i.e. if given a certain Time class, it can calculate \"30 seconds ago\" or \"2 days ago\"

Answer 1

Take a look at the instance methods here:

http://apidock.com/rails/Time

This has useful methods such as yesterday, tomorrow, beginning_of_week, ago, etc.

Examples:

Time.now.yesterday
Time.now.ago(2.days).end_of_day
Time.now.next_month.beginning_of_month