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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

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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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

I''ve discovered a strange behavior regarding ActiveRecord and TimeWithZone I''ve seen the error when using SQL Server, I have not yet tried with any other database. Here''s output from the console - "User" is a simple model made with a migration. ----------------------------------------- >> d1 = User.find(:first).created_at => Thu, 21 Jun 2001

I''ve installed ruby1.9.2 from rvm but ruby doesn''t work on my ubuntu there is a picture showing my situation. plase give me a help http://postfiles4.naver.net/20110114_51/sukury47_1294944222409RbBlv_JPEG/rvm_break.JPG?type=w3 -- 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

Hi, I''m getting this error: >> p = Plan.new >> p.amount TypeError: wrong argument type String (expected Fixnum) Apparently this happens because the aggregation isn''t initialized. Here''s the code: class Plan < ActiveRecord::Base composed_of :amount, :class_name => "Money", :converter => Proc.new { |s|

I don''t know if this is a bug, or wanted behavior, but for me it was a pain in... So here''s the problem + a bugfix. Lets say you have a model "Article" with the following fields: title, visible - and these records [code]title, visible ferret talk, 1 ruby talk, 0 ruby on rails, 1 lets talk about ruby, 1[/code] If I let Article act as a ferret, and do: result =

HI, i use models User and Groups connected with many to many association, so i have users table, groups and groups_users. lets say i create one user and one group. next i add a group to user. so now my table groups_users has one entry i.e. group_id | user_id _________|________ 1 | 1 ok, when i delete both my group and user, above entry is not deleted, thus leaving alone without

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

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 =

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