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I''m storying amounts of money in my database as cents. So I have custom accessors in my model, for example def actual_amount read_attribute("actual_amount").to_f / 100.0 end But when I use <%= text_field ''item'', ''actual_amount'' %> I get, for example, "3600" instead of "36.00". If I ignore the helper, and

...regardless of the value that is passed from a form. I am generating select tags with possible time values, and I have added one additional one called ''none'' which I want to insert a NULL value. I have tried all kinds of values for this option tag, and even tried writing a attribute_before_type_cast function and calling it via before_save to try and reset the value to null or nil. I have had no luck. So I am pretty sure that I am missing something- what do I have to do to get Rails to allow an attribute to hold a NULL value and also allow me to insert one into the database? Thanks.

Hi. I have two types of fields in my database, e.g. "name" and "name_ru". First one is a user''s name in english and the second one is in russian. I want to intercept calls like "c.name" and add "_ru" to it if current language is russian (I have my own Locale class like n Globalize). So I want such thing: -- Locale.set("en-US") c.name

Hey, I''ve noticed that I seem unable to get a _before_type_cast value for dates in 2.1. Specifically, if I assign a date string to a date attribute, and then call attribute_before_type_cast I get a TimeWithZone instead of a String: model.start_date = "2001/01/02" model.start_date.class = ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone model.start_date_before_type_cast.class = ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone Examining the @attributes in AR/lib/attribute_method.rb shows that the entries are already...

I''ve spent all day digging through the rails api and postgres-pr on this, I think it''s time to ask the list. Postgres stores a Date in YYYY-MM-DD format. My users want the dates in MM/DD/YYYY format. Sure, I could explicitly convert it on the app level every place where a date is displayed, but that seemed like a DRY violation. I thought I''d be clever and simply