similar to: Formatting values of numbers using text_field

Can someone explain why form helpers appear to bypass any model methods I override for fields that are bound to database fields? It would be great if someone could tell me how to force the form field, etc to call the method instead of looking at the database / attributes collection. Let''s say I have a column called ''price'' in my database table "books"

I was trying to access rails functions (number_with_precision) from an irb session. It can''t find the method. How do I load the libraries ? TIA LS -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am having some problem figuring out how to use the rateable plugin. i followed as close as the directions located at http://www.naffis.com/blog/articles/2006/08/31/rails-ajax-star-rating-system but there seem to be some problem. I am getting the following error You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.rating Extracted source (around line

Hello out there in Rails land. This is a multipart question so please bear with me... First, the background info: I''ve been making Apache work on our Windows servers here and I''m having good luck. However, I notice that Apache+FCGI doesn''t scale quite as well as I''d hoped. I have one static process defined for my FastCGI server, and I see about 5 requests

I am using the number to currency function because i live in the uk and the company want me to only show values of the pound of course.I have created all my application using ruby script/generate scaffold_resource.... I have come across with a problem... this code is in my applcation: def number_to_currency(number, options = {}) options = options.stringify_keys precision, unit, separator,

Hello, I am having some trouble figuring out how to use the rateable plugin. i followed as close as the directions located at http://www.naffis.com/blog/articles/2006/08/31/rails-ajax-star-rating-system but i fail at working it. i am getting this error You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! The error occured while evaluating nil.rating Extracted source (around line #1): 1:

I''m trying to implement acts_as_rateable to my Beast installation to give users the option to rate posts (like reddit). I chose acts_as_rateable as it supposedly easily allows reddit-type voting but I''m having some problems setting it up and the documentation seems outdated. (http://www.juixe.com/techknow/index.php/2006/07/05/acts-as-rateable-plugin/) So far, I''ve

All, I''m having a hell of a time figuring out what is going on here. I''m trying to override one of my getters so that I can format it a certain way in my form. But I can''t seem to get text_field to call the appropriate method on my object. So here''s my getter: public def FAX fax = read_attribute(:FAX) puts fax

Hi, I have a question about displaying digits in Rails. whenever I print the price of an item, if the last digit is a zero or double zeros then it doesn''t display properly. How do I display a number so that it looks like currency? thank you! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m working on a photo gallery and I''m using File_column to handle the uploads of the files and create my thumbnails, but does anyone here have any idea how to have a watermark (opaque text maybe) placed over one of the versions? Any ideas on how to go about this would be great. Even if it''s just straight RMagick code, that would be fine too. Thanks in advance for the

Hello I''ve encountered a little problem with zeros using the decimal data type Specifying a scale of 3 and inserting a number with 3 zeros after the point (for example 12345.000) it gets correctly stored in the database, but rails insists to show me the number only with the first zero after the point (12345.0) There is a way to tell rails to not truncate at the first zero?

I normally use number_with_precision in my views and I''ve never had a problem. Now however, I need to use it in my controller because my Ajax method is calling the controller and the controller will return values to it which will be displayed in the span of my html document. In short, what am I doing wrong in the statement below? I need the ''bid'' to be formatted

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/.

All, In a template, I have <%= text_field :target_list, :DateReceived, { :title => ''uploaded_at'', :class => ''target_list_info'', :disabled => ''true'' } %> Here is the DateReceived method on my

Hello, Today I noticed that the number_to_currency helper didn''t work anymore (it just returned the numeric value, without any currency). I tracked down the error and saw that editing line 89 ( number_to_currency method) as follows solved the problem : Old piece of code : begin format.gsub(/%n/, number_with_precision(number, :precision => precision, :delimiter =>

I work in the UK and therefore most of my currency figures will be in UK pounds. I realise that to format a number to a currency format I can use: number_to_currency(amt, :unit => "?") but it would be more convenient to set ? as the default currency symbol. What is the best way to do that? Should I edit line 39 of this file:

Is there a place I can get a list of "enterprise" Rails applications? Apparently, even though I''ve looked at the wiki and cited the examples there, there are some at my organization who still can''t find proof that Rails is usable in an enterprise setting. Would you fine folks be able to tell me about some large-scale projects that could be classified as

I need to use the number_with_precision Form helper in my controllers and classes. How do i do this? Thanks in advance Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hi! how can i add all the values from one tables field? i mean, i have a table with the entries of a booking (amount), and at the end, i want to have the total. i tried with different loops making a method in the model, but nothing. im doing something wrong, but i dont know what. please could somebody help me? ty!! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

hello list, i try to add a new format to my locales file de.yml i looks like that: de: number: square_meter: format: unit: ''m²'' format: "%n %u" precision: 2 separator: '','' delimiter: ''.'' after that i''ve copied the number_to_currency method to the