similar to: Currency calculation

Hi, I''m using a webservice in my application. How can I make it so that my application will only try to connect to the webservice for a certain period of time and then give up? Right now my code is using a begin-rescue-else but sometimes I get a "execution expired" error if the webservice is not available or takes too long to respond. Thanks, Peter begin service =

Another newbie question: How do i convert a float to a string, rounded to a certain number of decimals? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, Have a question related scope definition. I need to define a scope based on related model attribute values like this. class Product < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :currency scope :with_currency, lambda { |currency| unless currency.to_s.upcase == ''ALL'' # here I need to define a scope that would test for currency.char_code to match a passed value # something

Dear R forum, (Pl note this is not a finance problem) I have two data.frames as currency_df = data.frame(current_date = c("3/4/2013", "3/4/2013", "3/4/2013", "3/4/2013"), issue_date = c("27/11/2012", "9/12/2012", "14/01/2013", "28/02/2013"), maturity_date = c("27/04/2013", "3/5/2013",

Can anybody share some examples of their Money implementation ? I''m trying to setup a Model to use this library, but can''t seem to wrap my head around how it is exactly supposed to work. My Model (Foo) looks like: =============== composed_of :commission, :class_name => "Money", :mapping => [ %w(commission_cents cents), %w(commission_currency currency) ] Yet, in

Dear R forum I have a data.frame df = data.frame(currency_type = c("EURO_o_n", "EURO_o_n", "EURO_1w", "EURO_1w", "USD_o_n", "USD_o_n", "USD_1w", "USD_1w"), rates = c(0.47, 0.475, 0.461, 0.464, 1.21, 1.19, 1.41, 1.43))   currency_type     rates 1      EURO_o_n   0.470 2      EURO_o_n   0.475 3       EURO_1w   0.461

Dear R forum I have data.frame as df = data.frame(rate_name = c("USD_1w", "USD_1w", "USD_1w", "USD_1w", "USD_1m", "USD_1m", "USD_1m", "USD_1m", "USD_2m", "USD_2m", "USD_2m", "USD_2m",  "GBP_1w", "GBP_1w", "GBP_1w", "GBP_1w",

Here is my model: class Account < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :users, :dependent => :destroy has_many :bus belongs_to :currency has_many :mylogs, :dependent => :destroy has_many :batchuserdefines, :dependent => :destroy has_many :materialuserdefines, :dependent => :destroy has_many :materials has_many :inventories has_many :batchs has_many :courses has_many

Has anyone been able to make direct API calls to PayPal in currencies other than USD? I get an error message "The currency code submitted is not supported. Check the currency code and try again." I''m using the PayPal plugin for Rails. I can successfully transact in USD, but not AUD (Australian Dollars). Cheers, Dan

Hi Let''s say we have model Foo. Each Foo instance can have several bars. Those bars are primitive, so they shouldn''t be models. For example, Foo might be a type of convention, and the bars might be years the convention was held in. Naively, we would have a conventions_years date, and put: has_many :years inside class Convention. But then we''d get an error, since for

Dear R forum helpers, I am extremely sorry for the receipt of my incomplete mail yesterday. There was connectivity problem at my end and so I chose to send the mail through my cell, only to realize today about the way mail has been transmitted. I am again sending my complete mail through regular channel and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. ## Here is my actual mail Dear R

What data type is best for storing currency? I''m trying to come up with a reliable cross-database solution for rails that is not too complicated. Since I''m going to have currency fields all over the place, I''m not so sure that using two integer fields for each amount would qualify as uncomplicated. I''d like to be able to use database functions like SUM to

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

Dear sir, I am extremely sorry for messing up the logic asking for help w.r.t. my earlier mails   I have tried to explain below what I am looking for.     I have a database (say, currency_rates) storing datewise currency exchange rates with some base currency XYZ.   currency_rates <- data.frame(date = c("12/31/2010", "12/30/2010", "12/29/2010",

Hey, I got following very simple test case: require ''spec_helper'' describe Country do it "should create a new instance given valid attributes" do Factory(:country) end end Factory looks like: Factory.sequence :country_name do |n| "Country #{n}" end Factory.define :country do |c| c.name Factory.next(:country_name) c.nationality "Foo

Hello, After reading help file, various threads on this board, and other online tutorials, I've attempted to use gsub (using Perl-like syntax) to change a currency string into something that can be converted to numeric type using only one regular expression.  Can anybody point out my error?  Note that >  x <- "\"$ 1,200,300,400.50\"" Tried the following in an

I'm struggling to find any help on this seemingly simple question - how does one read data with percentage (%) or currency (?,$ etc.) signs? When I try to read a data file which has any of those symbols in the data fields, they are read as characters rather than values. Is there a function or library which can deal with such values? As an example, I use this sample from one of chinna's

Folks, I have three dataframes storing some information about two currency pairs, as follows: R> a EUR-USD NOK-SEK 1.23 1.33 1.22 1.43 1.26 1.42 1.24 1.50 1.21 1.36 1.26 1.60 1.29 1.44 1.25 1.36 1.27 1.39 1.23 1.48 1.22 1.26 1.24 1.29 1.27 1.57 1.21 1.55 1.23 1.35 1.25 1.41 1.25 1.30 1.23 1.11 1.28 1.37 1.27 1.23 R> b EUR-USD NOK-SEK 1.23 1.22 1.21 1.36 1.28 1.61 1.23 1.34 1.21 1.22

Hi! If i have something like this used to create select tag: options = [["Dollar", "$"], ["Kroner", "DKK"]] and later read value from the database and get "DKK", what is the easiest way to get "Kroner" value? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello. Where is there an Agile Messageboard? On the first part of the Depot example, a price field shouldn''t be an integer right? (it should be more of a float since a price has decimals) Dominic Son -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.