Relative date
Pass this method a Date object, a DateTime object, or a string of a date (like 7/6/05) and it will return a response that looks like 'yesterday', 'today', 'tomorrow', '12 days ago', 'in 4 days', 'Monday, January 5', or 'Tuesday, December 15, 2004'.
Inspired by adrian's Relative date PHP snippet.
Inspired by adrian's Relative date PHP snippet.
1 def rel_date(date) 2 date = Date.parse(date, true) unless /Date.*/ =~ date.class.to_s 3 days = (date - Date.today).to_i 4 5 return 'today' if days >= 0 and days < 1 6 return 'tomorrow' if days >= 1 and days < 2 7 return 'yesterday' if days >= -1 and days < 0 8 9 return "in #{days} days" if days.abs < 60 and days > 0 10 return "#{days.abs} days ago" if days.abs < 60 and days < 0 11 12 return date.strftime('%A, %B %e') if days.abs < 182 13 return date.strftime('%A, %B %e, %Y') 14 end
