Distance of time in days

rubyonrails-talk
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In rails 3 there is distance_of_time_in_words which works fine, but I would like to tweak its output a bit.

The thing is that if the dates are exactly the same it will say "Less Than a Minute" I would like it to show "Today" instead.

Is that possible?

Tiago Veloso ti.veloso@gmail.com

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In rails 3 there is distance_of_time_in_words which works fine, but I would like to tweak its output a bit.

The thing is that if the dates are exactly the same it will say "Less Than a Minute" I would like it to show "Today" instead.

Is that possible?

Write your own method that wraps this one. Compare the dates yourself and if they are < 1 minute spit out "Today" otherwise spit out the result of the original method...

That's what I'd do anyway...

-philip

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In rails 3 there is distance_of_time_in_words which works fine, but I would like to tweak its output a bit.

The thing is that if the dates are exactly the same it will say "Less Than a Minute" I would like it to show "Today" instead.

Is that possible?

Write your own method that wraps this one. Compare the dates yourself and if they are < 1 minute spit out "Today" otherwise spit out the result of the original method...

That's what I'd do anyway...

Or see if that method uses locale files that you can overwrite the value for "Less Than A Minute"...

-philip

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It does indeed. It’s in ActionView:

en:
  datetime:

distance_in_words:

half_a_minute: "half a minute"

less_than_x_seconds:

one:   "less than 1 second"

other: "less than %{count} seconds"

x_seconds:

one:   "1 second"

other: "%{count} seconds"

less_than_x_minutes:

one:   "less than a minute"

other: "less than %{count} minutes"

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionpack/lib/action_view/locale/en.yml
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Thank you.

I have overridden the method. And added a custom key. I prefer not to change the defaults.

Tiago Veloso ti.veloso@gmail.com