In Rails, display time between two dates in English

Question

In a Rails project I want to find the difference between two dates and then display it in natural language. Something like

>> (date1 - date2).to_natur         


        

Answer 1

The Rails' ActionView module includes two methods that may do what you require:

• distance_of_time_in_words
• distance_of_time_in_words_to_now