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

there's a method made for that:

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

equals 10.

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

Hope I helped.