How to get Time difference from system time?

[idealfellow]

I am using the following to get the time:

puts Time.now --> starting of my script

<MY CODE>

puts Time.now --> end of my script

I want to get the Time difference between two Time.now
Problem I am facing is i cannot directly take the difference as Time.now displays the time in following format : "Tue Feb 12 19:55:37 +0530 2008"
Any other better way to solve it?

Cheers

[improvcornartist]

You can subtract the times to get the number of seconds between. Then you will have to do some manipulation to get an output in a format you want. For instance, to determine the number of minutes and seconds a piece of code runs, you could use

@start = Time.now
#Execute code
@run_time = Time.now - @start
p sprintf("%d min ", @run_time / 60) + sprintf("%0.2f sec", @run_time % 60)

[idealfellow]

You can subtract the times to get the number of seconds between. Then you will have to do some manipulation to get an output in a format you want. For instance, to determine the number of minutes and seconds a piece of code runs, you could use

@start = Time.now
#Execute code
@run_time = Time.now - @start
p sprintf("%d min ", @run_time / 60) + sprintf("%0.2f sec", @run_time % 60)

Thanks Alot, works Fine :)