Calculate your age in years, days, hours, minutes, seconds in ruby
this script will calculate your age and make it update in front of your eyes :), this is a one scary script so be aware :D
first time i ran it i got panic , my age slipping second by second on a black screen with green text :)
require 'time'
Date_of_birth = '1988-8-31'
# Credit to : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4136248/how-to-generate-a-human-readable-time-range-using-ruby-on-rails
# and modified a little bit
def humanize secs
[
[60, :seconds],
[60, :minutes],
[24, :hours],
[365, :days],
[100, :years]
].map do |count, name|
if secs > 0
secs, n = secs.divmod(count)
"#{n.to_i} #{name}"
end
end.compact.reverse.join(' ')
end
loop do
distance = Time.new - Time.parse(Date_of_birth)
print humanize(distance)+"\r"
sleep 1
end
Written by Emad Elsaid
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