Calculate the elapsed time after creating a record

Question

I’d like to know how calculate the time between creating a record (created_at) and the current time. My intention is to display this difference in seconds, minutes, hours or days that it occurred. Is there any method/Gem to accomplish this task?

Answer 1

I have resolved the question using the following method: time_ago_in_words

In your view use the code:

há <%= time_ago_in_words(notification.created_at) %>

If your date passed as a parameter in the method is 19:00 13/12/2017 and the current time is 19:07 13/12/2017, the result will be: há 07 minutos. It also works when the difference is for seconds, hours and days.