Calculate difference in days ActiveSupport:TimeWithZone in the most “rubyish” style?

Question

I have a feeling someone is going to point me to another question that answers this but I\'ve been searching with no luck over this simple issue.

I have a Activereco

Answer 1

Rails actually has a method built in for just this sort of thing.

checkout #time_ago_in_words

So, for the original case...

((Time.zone.now - myActiveRecord.visit_date)/86400).to_i

vs

time_ago_in_words(myActiveRecord.visit_date)