Ruby/Rails: Converting datetime to natural language (e.g. 3/23/2012 to “this Friday”)

Question

Is anyone aware of a gem, method, or code snippet that will convert datetime values into sometime more human-friendly without having to create a series of rules or put a bun

Answer 1

The goal of the Hublot gem is to solve this problem — to be a "reverse Chronic".

https://github.com/brettshollenberger/hublot

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