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...sors to do currency conversions. In my model, I have a price attribute in the database that stores the value in cents, to avoid future problems with float arithmetic and round. But at the views, I would like to show the price in euros, with decimal for the cents. So I defined a new attribute called price_in_euros, and the corresponding accesors: class Report < ActiveRecord::Base validates_numericality_of :price, :only_integer => true attr_accessor :price_in_euros def price_in_euros if self.price self.price / 100.0 else # default price is 1 euro 1 end end def price_in_euros=(eur...

...sors to do currency conversions. In my model, I have a price attribute in the database that stores the value in cents, to avoid future problems with float arithmetic and round. But at the views, I would like to show the price in euros, with decimal for the cents. So I defined a new attribute called price_in_euros, and the corresponding accesors: class Report < ActiveRecord::Base validates_numericality_of :price, :only_integer => true attr_accessor :price_in_euros def price_in_euros if self.price self.price / 100.0 else...

Hi, I''m looking for a way to extend one of my models to allow some level of abstraction between what goes into it and how it is stored. For example, say I have a Product and I want to set it''s price. A person using the website will type the price in euros. Internally, I''d like to store the price as an integer value of cents. I can currently do this with some ugly code

Hey guys, I just implemented very simple and primitive class table inheritance in ActiveRecord. The goal is for this to become mature enough to become a true feature in Rails. Check it out here: http://guest@blog.raylucke.com/svn/inherits_from Here?s how it looks in action: create_table "books", :force => true do |t| t.column "product_id", :integer t.column