Spanner

Easy way to parse natural language time spans as periods expressed in seconds. Supports float point notions of spans as well.

Installation

gem install spanner-lfittl

or add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'spanner-lfittl', :require => 'spanner'

Usage

require 'spanner'

Spanner.parse('1s')
=> 1

Spanner.parse('23 hours 12 minutes')
=> 83520

Spanner.format(83520)
=> '23 hours 12 minutes'

Spanner.format(83520, :biggest_unit => :minutes)
=> '1392 minutes'

Authors

Original author: Joshua Hull <joshbuddy@gmail.com>

Newer contributions: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>