Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "longdecimal".
2006 Feb 09
11
Ruby on AIX?
We''re looking at big IBM hardware running AIX as a potential
deployment platform for the big credit card processing Rails and Ruby
stuff that my team is currently building. I was wondering if anyone
else is running on AIX or knows if Ruby is well-supported on this
platform.
I googled the subject, but
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/3daaf60b012c1921
is
2006 Jul 09
6
Float -> BigDecimal
So, I''m personally cool with this change (patch from #5454, applied in
[4596]), and I''ll make it work for Oracle tomorrow.
But just wondering if folks considered the performance impact of the
change? From a simple test it seems that BigDecimal math is about twice
as slow as using Floats.
2006 Apr 09
16
Mapping to BigDecimals instead of Floats
Hi everyone,
I''m new to Rails and Ruby, and have been working my way through the Pickaxe
and Agile Rails books for the last week or so. With a background in payroll
apps I found that the default ActiveRecord mapping of decimal columns to
float variables really bothered me! Financial calcs need high levels of
accuracy and floats just don''t give you that.
I know there are a bunch