How to get the current time as 13-digit integer in Ruby?

Question

I have this jQuery function that returns the current time as the number of milliseconds since the epoch (Jan 1, 1970):

time = new Date().getTime         


        

Answer 1

Get a Time object with Time.now, calling #to_i returns a Unix timestamp (seconds from epoch). #to_f gives fractional seconds which you can use to get milliseconds from epoch:

Time.now.to_f * 1000