CSS style time_ago_in_words rails

Question

I was wondering what would be the best solution for customising the rails helper: time_ago_in_words, so that I could do things like:

    <span class="one">4</span>
    <span class="two">hours</span>
    <span class="three">ago</span>

or what the layout looks like by default?

Thanks

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 26 '12 at 13:45

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I would just create a helper that splits the result of time_ago_in_words on spaces and returns the array of words. Then you can format them however you want.

answered Jan 26 '12 at 13:45

Nick

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That's a good idea, I just wonder if I might need something even more customizable as I want to remove the 'about' and also display a date (21 Jan 2011) after a year has passed instead of 'about one year ago', but I will accept your answer in relevance to the question. thanks – Darcbar Jan 26 '12 at 14:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '12 at 13:58

Instead of the method time_ago_in_words, you can use distance_of_time_in_words, which accepts locale in the option array: create a new locale where you can define "hours" with "hours", etc... and give it to distance_of_time_in_words. It should work, but I'm not sure how will be handled the HTML tags.

CSS style time_ago_in_words rails

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