An alternative could be using
number_to_currency(1234567890.50r)
Hugo Peixoto
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't go as far as to say floats are *encouraged in general*, you
> gave an example of a questionable sample code, but also have
> counterexamples, for example in the type of price attributes in the AR
> migrations guide. Bottom line, all Rails core is aware of these gotchas,
> anything that could be misleading in this sense is probably an overlook.
>
> Problem is this helper rarely gets a literal, and
>
> number_to_currency(1234567890.50)
>
> reads much better than
>
> number_to_currency("1234567890.50".to_d)
>
> for my taste.
>
> It's easy to make something faster if you can make it wrong, and also to
> make it read better by stretching the truth just a little bit 😃.
>
> Maybe we could add a sentence saying "The following examples use floats,
> however, numbers representing money normally need and exact type like
> BigDecimal". Also open to better suggestions.
>
>
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