rails中的一些特殊方法

puts 20.bytes #=> 20
puts 20.kilobytes #=> 20480
puts 20.megabytes #=> 20971520
puts 20.gigabytes #=> 21474836480
puts 20.terabytes #=> 21990232555520
puts 20.minutes #=> 1200
puts 20.hours #=> 72000
puts 20.days #=> 1728000
puts 20.weeks #=> 12096000
puts 20.fortnights #=> 24192000
puts 20.months #=> 51840000
puts 20.years #=> 630720000
puts Time.now #=> Tue May 10 17:03:43 CDT 2005
puts 20.minutes.ago #=> Tue May 10 16:43:43 CDT 2005
puts 20.hours.from_now #=> Wed May 11 13:03:43 CDT 2005
puts 20.weeks.from_now #=> Tue Sep 27 17:03:43 CDT 2005
puts 20.months.ago #=> Thu Sep 18 17:03:43 CDT 2003

now = Time.now
puts now #=> Tue May 10 17:15:59 CDT 2005
puts now.ago(3600) #=> Tue May 10 16:15:59 CDT 2005
puts now.at_beginning_of_day #=> Tue May 10 00:00:00 CDT 2005
puts now.at_beginning_of_month #=> Sun May 01 00:00:00 CDT 2005
puts now.at_beginning_of_week #=> Mon May 09 00:00:00 CDT 2005
puts now.at_beginning_of_year #=> Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2005
puts now.at_midnight #=> Tue May 10 00:00:00 CDT 2005
puts now.change(:hour => 13) #=> Tue May 10 13:00:00 CDT 2005
puts now.last_month #=> Sun Apr 10 17:15:59 CDT 2005
puts now.last_year #=> Mon May 10 17:15:59 CDT 2004
puts now.midnight #=> Tue May 10 00:00:00 CDT 2005
puts now.monday #=> Mon May 09 00:00:00 CDT 2005
puts now.months_ago(2) #=> Thu Mar 10 17:15:59 CST 2005
puts now.months_since(2) #=> Sun Jul 10 17:15:59 CDT 2005
puts now.next_week #=> Mon May 16 00:00:00 CDT 2005
puts now.next_year #=> Wed May 10 17:15:59 CDT 2006
puts now.seconds_since_midnight #=> 62159.215938
puts now.since(7200) #=> Tue May 10 19:15:59 CDT 2005
puts now.tomorrow #=> Wed May 11 17:15:59 CDT 2005
puts now.years_ago(2) #=> Sat May 10 17:15:59 CDT 2003
puts now.years_since(2) #=> Thu May 10 17:15:59 CDT 2007
puts now.yesterday #=> Mon May 09 17:15:59 CDT 2005
puts "cat".pluralize #=> cats
puts "cats".pluralize #=> cats
puts "erratum".pluralize #=> errata
puts "cats".singularize #=> cat
puts "errata".singularize #=> erratum