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| -rw-r--r-- | activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb | 24 |
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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb index 5a64fc52cc..4c0d1197fe 100644 --- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration.rb @@ -56,6 +56,30 @@ module ActiveSupport @value.to_s end + # Returns the number of seconds that this Duration represents. + # + # 1.minute.to_i # => 60 + # 1.hour.to_i # => 3600 + # 1.day.to_i # => 86400 + # + # Note that this conversion makes some assumptions about the + # duration of some periods, e.g. months are always 30 days + # and years are 365.25 days: + # + # # equivalent to 30.days.to_i + # 1.month.to_i # => 2592000 + # + # # equivalent to 365.25.days.to_i + # 1.year.to_i # => 31557600 + # + # In such cases, Ruby's core + # Date[http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html] and + # Time[http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/time/rdoc/Time.html] should be used for precision + # date and time arithmetic. + def to_i + @value.to_i + end + # Returns +true+ if +other+ is also a Duration instance, which has the # same parts as this one. def eql?(other) |