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

Define a Ruby function like this,

def time_diff(start_time, end_time)
  seconds_diff = (start_time - end_time).to_i.abs

  days = seconds_diff / 86400 
  seconds_diff -= days * 86400

  hours = seconds_diff / 3600  
  seconds_diff -= hours * 3600

  minutes = seconds_diff / 60
  seconds_diff -= minutes * 60

  seconds = seconds_diff

  "#{days} Days #{hours} Hrs #{minutes} Min #{seconds} Sec"
 end

And Call this function,

time_diff(Time.now, Time.now-4.days-2.hours-1.minutes-53.seconds)