[Ruby] On How to make time_ago_in_words cachable ?

2008-04-10T21:54:08-07:00

In the rails version the numbers are not cast to Floats before dividing, so the results are not consistent when you put this code and time_ago_in_words side by side. Using Math.floor will give the proper results.

distanceOfTimeInWords: function(to, from) {
  seconds_ago = ((to  - from) / 1000);
  minutes_ago = Math.floor(seconds_ago / 60);

  if(minutes_ago == 0) { return "less than a minute"; }
  if(minutes_ago == 1) { return "1 minute ago"; }
  if(minutes_ago < 45) { return minutes_ago + " minutes"; }
  if(minutes_ago < 90) { return " about 1 hour"; }
  hours_ago  = Math.floor(minutes_ago / 60);
  if(minutes_ago < 1440) { return "about " + hours_ago + " hours"; }
  if(minutes_ago < 2880) { return "1 day"; }
  days_ago  = Math.floor(minutes_ago / 1440);
  if(minutes_ago < 43200) { return days_ago + " days"; }
  if(minutes_ago < 86400) { return "about 1 month"; }
  months_ago  = Math.floor(minutes_ago / 43200);
  if(minutes_ago < 525960) { return months_ago + " months"; }
  if(minutes_ago < 1051920) { return "about 1 year"; }
  years_ago  = Math.floor(minutes_ago / 525960);
  return "over " + years_ago + " years";
}

makenai

[Ruby] On How to make time_ago_in_words cachable ?