Rails - Get the time difference in hours, minutes and seconds

Question

I\'m looking for an idiomatic way to get the time passed since a given date in hours, minutes and seconds.

If the given date is 2013-10-25 23:55:00 and the current

Answer 1

There's a method for that:

Time.now.minus_with_coercion(10.seconds.ago)

equals 10 (in fact, 9.99..., use .round if you want a 10).

Source: http://apidock.com/rails/Time/minus_with_coercion

Hope I helped.