UsefulDuration

Finally - a useful way of measuring time in your applications.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'useful_duration'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install useful_duration

Usage

require 'useful_duration'

include UsefulDuration

10.in_a_gadda_da_vidas.ago => 2013-04-18 11:25:56 -0400

2.bravehearts.from_now => 2013-04-18 20:10:45 -0400

Defining Your Own Duration

require 'useful_duration'

include UsefulDuration

useful_duration :fortnights, 1209600

1.fortnight.from_now => 2013-07-21 08:47:37 -0400

Dependencies

This requires ActiveSupport to play nicely with ActiveSupport duration. It was written against 3.2.13 and hasn't been regression tested against other versions.

Contributing

Is there a unit of time you'd like to see?

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request