Example of using Chronic gem and TimeDifference gem to get the duration between two statements

time_difference.rb

require 'chronic'
require 'time_difference'


humanStatement1 = "this tuesday 1pm"
humanStatement2 = "this tuesday 3pm"

humanStatement1Parsed = Chronic.parse(humanStatement1)
humanStatement2Parsed = Chronic.parse(humanStatement2)

# very human readable version
puts TimeDifference.between(humanStatement1Parsed, humanStatement2Parsed).in_hours  #=> 2.0

# No need for the Prased Variables version
puts TimeDifference.between(Chronic.parse(humanStatement1), Chronic.parse(humanStatement2)).in_hours  #=> 2.0

# Single Line version
puts TimeDifference.between(Chronic.parse("this tuesday 1pm"), Chronic.parse("this tuesday 3pm")).in_hours  #=> 2.0