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ltdev

Reputation: 4467

Show duration (in minutes) to hours

I want to display the duration of a movie. Right now the movie.duration is shown in minutes (integer)

%b Duration: #{ @movie.duration } # 134 mins

Does rails have a time helper to show this is in a more human-readable way? Something like this:

Duration: 2h 23min

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7536

Answers (2)

Ziv Galili
Ziv Galili

Reputation: 1445

distance_of_time_in_words might help you.

You can use it like this:

distance_of_time_in_words(0, 143.minutes)
# => "about 2 hours"

To use an integer / float you'd need to convert to seconds manually:

distance_of_time_in_words(0, 143 * 60)

You could also calculate it like this:

"#{@movie.duration/60}h #{@movie.duration % 60}min"

The division will give you the hours, while the modulo will give you the minutes.

Finally, for the format specified in your question, there's a Gist you can use for the code here.

Upvotes: 8

Santosh Sharma
Santosh Sharma

Reputation: 2248

Try Following

def formatted_duration(total_minute)
  hours = total_minute / 60
  minutes = (total_minute) % 60
  "#{ hours }h #{ minutes }min"
end

Upvotes: 7

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