Length Of Time

A miniature DSL for describing lengths of time.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'length_of_time'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install length_of_time

Require the gem:

require 'length_of_time'

Use the various methods that we monkey-patch onto Numeric:

# Default unit to return is :seconds
puts 10.minutes # => 600.0

# Can also convert into other units of time
puts 7.days in: :weeks # => 1.0

# Return Floats so that unit conversion does not suffer from Integer division
puts 10.days in: :weeks # => 1.4285714285714286

# Method calls on Numeric literals can be either singular or plural
puts 1.hour # => 3600.0
puts 2.hours # => 7200.0

# When converting into another unit of time, unit must be plural
puts 500.milliseconds in: :minutes # Correct
puts 750.milliseconds in: :minute # Incorrect - will give an error

# Full list of units supported:
# Singular [:millisecond, :second, :minute, :hour, :day, :week, :fortnight]
# Plural [:milliseconds, :seconds, :minutes, :hours, :days, :weeks, :fortnights] 

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/craysiii/length_of_time.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.