ruby get current time code example

Example 1: ruby measure time

starting = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC)

# time consuming operation(s)

ending = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
elapsed = ending - starting
elapsed # => 9.424242424242424 seconds

Example 2: ruby get current datetime

require 'date'

current_datetime = DateTime.now