Ruby on Rails Friday, December 1, 2017

On 1 December 2017 at 05:49, Nate Sullivan
<nathanielsullivan00@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the most natural way read the code created_at < 10.minutes.ago is
> "created_at is less than ten minutes ago," but that reading suggests the
> mistaken interpretation that created_at is fewer than ten minutes ago. The
> correct interpretation is that created_at is earlier than ten minutes ago.

It never occurred to me that there is any confusion over this syntax.
created_at is a time, 10 minutes ago is a time, time a < time b is
unambiguous.

Colin

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