Time in Rails

Alex Wayne wrote:

Stewart wrote: > Hello, > > I have a background in PHP. I have been working with rails for a little > wihle now and somethign i still am not understanding is how ruby handles > time stamps. What method can i use to get the current time stamp? Also > how can i convert that timestamp in to an "english" time? > > I need to work out times based on weeks. So for example i would have > done something like this in php > > > $time_now = time(); > $time_one_week_form_now = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7 + time(); > > how would i do this in ruby?

easy as pie

  now = Time.now   then = 1.week.from_now

  puts then.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')   #=> 2006-11-27

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require 'rubygems' require 'ruby-units' require 'chronic'

now = 'now'.time next_week = now + '1 week'.unit