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Rounding Time to the Closest Hour in Ruby

Ahhh… its one of the moments in life that make you so happy your a ruby developer.

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class Time
  def round(seconds = 60)
    Time.at((self.to_f / seconds).round * seconds)
  end

  def floor(seconds = 60)
    Time.at((self.to_f / seconds).floor * seconds)
  end

  def round_to_closest_hour
    if self.min > 30
      self.round(1.hour)
    else
      self.floor(1.hour)
    end
  end
end

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/449271/how-to-round-a-time-down-to-the-nearest-15-minutes-in-ruby