Is there a way to get time ago in words in rubymotion such that when I have a date I can get the 2 days ago 5 days ago etc. from the current date? like its possible to do in rails.
The date format I am getting from mysql database is TIMESTAMP and the returned data is like this:
2014-05-17 22:59:07
2011-05-17 22:56:02
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How can I convert the above string to NSDate and then compare it to today's date and get "X days ago" etc...
You can use BubbleWrap to convert your timestamp into a NSDate instance.
The Time Ruby class was added a class level method to convert a iso8601 formatted string into a Time instance.
Time.iso8601("2012-05-31T19:41:33Z")
=> 2012-05-31 21:41:33 +0200
Then you can do as you wish with it, sugar cube has some nice extensions for NSDate.
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Looks like there is a CocoaPod that can handle that: https://github.com/MatthewYork/DateTools
Add pod 'DateTools' to your Rakefile. Run rake pod:install and now you can convert your date objects like this:
my_date = NSDate.dateWithNaturalLanguageString('2015-08-18T23:58:40.000+00:00')
my_date.timeAgoSinceNow
