Rails - How to display the time created like twitter

Question

please take a look here: http://twitter.com/#!/techcrunch

Notice that time is displayed with the following logic:

• If created_at, is under 24hrs, it display XXX hours ago, or 1 hour ago
• If created_at, is over 24hrs, it display the X Feb

Does Rails have this capability built in or is a helper needed? If so, what's the smart way to solve for this type of output?

Thanks

Answer 1

You are probably looking for the time_ago_in_words helper method.