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Convert Seconds to Human Readable time (up to days)

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Pass in seconds and get back the amount of time in human readable format! ie: puts Utils.seconds_to_string(129) :=> 2 minutes, 9 seconds

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  1. class Utils
  2.  
  3.   def self.seconds_to_string(s)
  4.  
  5.     # d = days, h = hours, m = minutes, s = seconds
  6.     m = (s / 60).floor
  7.     s = s % 60
  8.     h = (m / 60).floor
  9.     m = m % 60
  10.     d = (h / 24).floor
  11.     h = h % 24
  12.  
  13.     output = "#{s} second#{Utils.pluralize(s)}" if (s > 0)
  14.     output = "#{m} minute#{Utils.pluralize(m)}, #{s} second#{Utils.pluralize(s)}" if (m > 0)
  15.     output = "#{h} hour#{Utils.pluralize(h)}, #{m} minute#{Utils.pluralize(m)}, #{s} second#{Utils.pluralize(s)}" if (h > 0)
  16.     output = "#{d} day#{Utils.pluralize(d)}, #{h} hour#{Utils.pluralize(h)}, #{m} minute#{Utils.pluralize(m)}, #{s} second#{Utils.pluralize(s)}" if (d > 0)
  17.  
  18.     return output
  19.   end
  20.  
  21.   def self.pluralize number 
  22.     return "s" unless number == 1
  23.     return ""
  24.   end
  25.  
  26. end

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