Ruby on Rails - Convert String to a DateTime action

Question

I am trying to convert a string like "6 months ago" and "3 days ago" to a date/datetime.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Daniel Rikowski · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-08 12:17:52Z

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The Chronic gem provides such a feature. (Github, RubyGems)

It can parse rather complex statements. For example

can all be parsed.

answered Aug 8, 2013 at 11:33

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masterweily · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-08 13:34:56Z

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In rails, it can be done easily without other gems:

eval("3 days ago".gsub(" ","."))
# => Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:31:06 UTC +00:00

answered Aug 8, 2013 at 13:34

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