How do I get the number of seconds between two DateTimes in Ruby on Rails

Question

I\'ve got code that does time tracking for employees. It creates a counter to show the employee how long they have been clocked in for.

This is the current code:

Answer 1

I am using ruby-2.1.4 and for me the following worked

Time.now - Time.new(2014,11,05,17,30,0)

gave me the time difference in seconds

reference: ruby doc