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2010 Oct 16
3
Doubt with symbols in Rails
I was trying to write a wrapper for number_to_currency to return
currency in pounds. I used a helper class to do this.
def number_to_pounds(amt)
number_to_currency(amt, :unit => "£")
end
This works fine, but I am trying to understand why I can''t use a
symbol to pass the values. I thought symbols were like pointers. (you
now know I am a newbie).
def number_to_pounds(:amt)
number_to_currency(:amt, :unit =>...
2006 Mar 03
1
number_to_currency() helper == non DRY == could be improved
Hi all,
Apologies in advance if I got this one wrong, I''m still just a
newbie ;-)
Going through the Apple ADC RoR tutorial it suddenly occurred to me
that the ''number_to_currency()'' helper method was not DRY streamlined.
Scenario::
The "number_to_currency()" methods options hash works great when I
need to dynamically display different currencies when I