StringifyTime

Simply converts strings into minutes and minutes into humanized time. I've pulled this out of scrumandcola.com, which is an agile (scrum) project management tool as such, a day is 6 hours. This can be changed via a class variable in the script

Or you can create an initializer (e.g. stringify_time.rb) and in that, add StringifyTime.hours_per_day = 5

Accepts days months and minutes in this format "1d 2h 30m" "1d 30m" "9d 12h" "12m"

etc.

Updated with specs

Example

Basic Example, convert a string to minutes and back to a string

"1d 12h 30m".minutes => 2190

2190.humanize => "1d 12h 30m"

It can accept any variation of the above, its not limited by the 24/60 limitations set by standard time

"90h".minutes => 5400

But will return a string in a more readable format

5400.humanize => "3d 18h"

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2009 Mark Gandolfo, released under the MIT license

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