goodies.rb

require 'time'

# Helper to take out http[s]:// so Tropo TTS doesn't try to stream the URL as if it were an audio file.
# => Method by @Skram
def reformat_uris(text)
  text.gsub(/https?:\/\//, "link to ")
end

# Helper to convert number to ordinal.
# Such as: 1 = "first", 2 = "second", 3 = "third", ... 99 = "ninety-ninth", and so on.
# => Method by @Skram
def say_as_ordinal(number)
  "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><speak><say-as interpret-as='ordinal'>#{number}</say-as></speak>"
end


### Borrowed from 2nd answer on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/195740/how-do-you-do-relative-time-in-rails
### => Thanks MattW! - http://stackoverflow.com/users/4494/mattw
module PrettyDate
  def to_pretty
    a = (Time.now-self).to_i
    case a
      when 0 then return 'just now'
      when 1 then return 'a second ago'
      when 2..59 then return a.to_s+' seconds ago' 
      when 60..119 then return 'a minute ago' #120 = 2 minutes
      when 120..3540 then return (a/60).to_i.to_s+' minutes ago'
      when 3541..7100 then return 'an hour ago' # 3600 = 1 hour
      when 7101..82800 then return ((a+99)/3600).to_i.to_s+' hours ago' 
      when 82801..172000 then return 'a day ago' # 86400 = 1 day
      when 172001..518400 then return ((a+800)/(60*60*24)).to_i.to_s+' days ago'
      when 518400..1036800 then return 'a week ago'
    end
    return ((a+180000)/(60*60*24*7)).to_i.to_s+' weeks ago'
  end
end
Time.send :include, PrettyDate