similar to: Float -> BigDecimal

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

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

I was just playing around in irb and noticed that while BigDecimal + Integer => BigDecimal, BigDecimal + Float => Float. Is there any reason for this? It seems inconsistent and means you have to check the class of any number you add to a BigDecimal, which looks very un-Ruby-like to me. Ashley

Is there a method that converts BigDecimal 1520.0 to "one thousand five hundred and twenty"? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

I need to do some precise math, going to 12-14 decimal places, so I''m using BigDecimal. How can I store this in a db? I''m using postgresql 8.1.0, if that matters at all. I found a plugin [1] but it gives me the error "You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.each_pair," with no line number. The plugin itself

I have a strange problem with my setup of Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition. Sometimes the loading of BigDecimals from the database and session fails (silently) and the variable containing the BigDecimal is just empty. I cannot pinpoint where/when/how it happens, and it IS only periodic. I am using the newest versions of both Passenger and REE - I have even tried to run with latest commit

I was hoping 1.1 would provide a way to map SQL "decimal" column types to BigDecimal values, since BigDecimal is part of the Ruby standard api as of 1.8. But I don''t see any support for that in the migration documentation, and when I try to let Active Record do the mapping for me, it seems to coerce the column into a Float (as the AwdwR book says). Is it really there in

Hi all, I''m working on a financial app, and have set up some columns in my tables as decimals with precision => 8 and scale => 2. My migration looks like: change_column :lineitems, :price, :decimal, :precision => 8, :scale => 2 change_column :payments, :amount, :decimal, :precision => 8, :scale => 2 I''ve run the migration and restarted the server. I

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Any idea why this calculates the integer the way it does? irb> ("291.15".to_f * 100.0).to_i => 29114 Thanks, Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

I am overriding to_s method of BigDecimal class as below and its working fine. Wanted to confirm is there any other better way to do this ? Thanks! 49 class BigDecimal 50 alias :old_s :to_s 51 def to_s 52 return to_i.to_s if eql? to_i 53 self.old_s 54 end 55 end -- sαη∂ιρ Rαηѕιηg --- blog www.funonrails.com twitter @sandipransing skype sandip.ransing -- You received

hi guys im playing with RoR with the environment of rails 3 ruby 1.9 i got stuck in nil can''t be coerced into BigDecimal error i need to get the total cost of the products inside the cart i know where the problem is(i think) but i almost did every thing cart/show.html.rb <div class="cart_title" >Your Cart</div> <table> <% for item in

Hello How can I test equality with two objects when they include some attribute that is BigDecimal? if I make something like this: it "should ...whatever" do obj = Factory.create(:my_object) ... MyObject.first.should == obj end. FAILS This fails because the object expected is different from the object gotten, and the only difference are the BigDecimal attributes, that are

Ok so I have this route map.namespace :trades do |trades| trades.resources :buys, :path_prefix => ''/trades/:contract_id'' end I want the contract_id variable to filter a list of buys then I try to open this route http://localhost:3000/trades/1/buys I get a strange error: ActionController::RoutingError in Trades/buys#index Showing trades/buys/index.html.erb where line

There''s a test for activerecord called test_numeric_fields in base_test.rb. here''s the test def test_numeric_fields m = NumericData.new( :bank_balance => 1586.43, :big_bank_balance => BigDecimal("1000234000567.95"), :world_population => 6000000000, :my_house_population => 3 ) assert m.save m1 =

I''m doing the depot example in the Agle Web development book. I''m getting this error: "undefined method `product'' for #<BigDecimal:331ce70,''0.21E1'',8(8)> " "Extracted source (around line #9): 8: for item in @items 9: product = item.product 10: -%> 11: <tr> 12: <td><%= item.product%></td>"

The revised patch submitted on #4748 broke the build, I''m looking to sort out why. Also note that this auto-test email didn''t make it to rails-core because it was too big (every test failed, so the resulting email was huge). I''ll patch my auto-testing script to truncate the email to no larger than a few kb. Michael Schoen wrote: > "marcel" made

Hiall, I''m wondering what''s common practice when dealing with money values stored in databases. I like the idea of storing all the values as integers, i.e. all the values in eurocents not euros. Then I need to multiply all values the users enter by 100 before storing them in the database. Now the question is, what''s the most efficient and dryest way to do this?

I am trying to build a distribution without having to be root. The SYSLINUX installer typically needs root to do loopback mounting, but if you have MTOOLS, you can use that instead. This seems to work so far: #!/bin/sh # A minimal replacement for /usr/bin/syslinux; assumes that ldlinux.sys # and ldlinux.bss are available in the current directory. You must # specify locations of mkdosfs and

I''m working my way through the book Agile Web Development with Rails, and I am in the section where the book has me creating a display_cart method and the associated view. When I copied the code from the book into the view, it threw this error. If anyone could give me some hints where I should be looking I''d appreciate it. NoMethodError in Store#display_cart Showing