Hello,
Every article on Medium has an estimate n min read time.
Would you point me to a direction how can I implement similar feature on my blog.
Thanks
Im assuming that the medium read times are probably based on a generic word count combined with some information about the average rate humans read words (I highly doubt its much more intelligent then that). You could probably implement a helper function to do this for you.
Having a quick look around I stumbled on ReadingTime, you could bundle this gem in and wrap a helper around it like @salmansqadeer suggests. However looking through the guts of ReadingTime It seems super simple. Maybe this could be something contributed to Middleman-Blog?
I was not able to make ReadingTime work, but found a jQuery plugin called minRead and it works fine.
I realize this is an old post, but I stumbled across it while looking into something else… Anyway, thought I’d share a How-to article that could help anyone else who ends up here: http://torspark.com/how-to-calculate-article-reading-time-with-a-custom-middleman-extension/
It walks you through making a custom MM extension to calculate reading time.