similar to: BigDecimal + Float => Float?

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 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''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

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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.

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

Hi I''ve just tracked down a wierd error that AFAICT is caused by an error not being raised in the setup: context "An Asset" do setup do @provider = Provider.create(:name => "Provider1") @product = Product.new(:name => "Product1", :provider => @provider) @applicant = Applicant.new(:first_name =>

Why aren''t builder.js, slider.js, and scriptaculous.js part of the Rails 1.1 javascripts? rab:javascripts $ pwd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/html/javascripts rab:javascripts $ ls -l total 288 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 148 Mar 28 08:56 application.js -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28036 Mar 28 08:56 controls.js -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23613 Mar 28 08:56 dragdrop.js

I''m on OS X Tiger, and just upgraded my gems. I also ran ''rake rails:update''. After that, I ran "rake freeze_gems", I recieve the following: ===================== Freezing to the gems for Rails 1.1.0 rm -rf vendor/rails mkdir -p vendor/rails cd vendor/rails Unpacked gem: ''activesupport-1.3.0'' mv activesupport-1.3.0 activesupport Unpacked

Hi, since rails 2.2 doesn''t work with gettext anymore I decided to use a gettext dummy method until the gettext team relases a working version for rails 2.2. My application doesn''t need any i18n support right now and this way i figured it would be very easy to integrate gettext later. Just setup the plugin and go. So I need a method called _ which is available in alle models,

I have a user controller with login as action. When I access the index.html.erb file via application.layout file. I get a error on the login link on the index.html.erb page. I think I am having dfifficulty in setting up path to an action or even understanding how to set REST path properly. Can someone please help me. Here is the error on the home page:

Can anyone give a suggestion so that i can able to format the date as like this 3th - 5th June 2009 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I stole a script from the archives which shows how to launch an https version of webrick. However I am getting an error that indicates that my ruby/rails isntallation is missing a component to support ssl as called from webrick. The script line in question is: 6 require ''webrick/https'' and the error stack generated is:

Hi All... I am using generate_sitemap plugin to generate sitemap. It goes very well and creates sitemap as well. My problem is I want some links that are coming from vender/plugins. Can any one tell me how to get those links??? Thanks all... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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 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

Is there a difference in the way that params[] and @params[] are handled? Is the ''handling'' done by Ruby or Rails? A pointer to the relevant documentation would be sincerely appreciated. Or just an answer would be ok too ;-) Thanks, Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

hi there, I am about to embark on a mission critical financial web application, and was wondering weather ruby on rails is the best fit for this type of project. More specifically I am worried about floating point errors. Would it be more appropriate to use a more statically typed framework (.NET)? thankyou. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Given that Rails has built in ways to do almost everything else :) , is there a way to keep view specific javascripts inside the head tag of a layout without having to include that javascript on every page? -- Marlon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060404/65e9bb6d/attachment.html

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