On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Clay H. <cchea...@gmail.com> wrote: > previous = DateTime.strptime(thefile[i-1][1], "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M") > current = DateTime.strptime(thefile[i][1], "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M") > ... > > I then could do something like: > diff = current - previous > > and check to see whether diff is greater than 10 minutes -- if so, > then do the processing that I need to do. > > It appears that diff returns as something like Rational(1, 48). I'm > not sure what to do with that.
It's the proportion of a 24 hour day, so 1/48 is a half hour. But since you're using rails and have active support you could do if (current - 10.minutes) > previous .... HTH -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
