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

Once you get the time difference in seconds, you could do something like this

Time.at(t).utc.strftime("%H:%M:%S")

Where t is the time difference in seconds