On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:05 AM, John Merlino <[email protected]> wrote:

> thanks for responses, the ultimate goal was just to ensure a list of
> 500 (no more or less) unique random decimals that are 3 places which
> would be generated only one time. Currently I'm storing them as a float
> in the mysql database.
>

Do yourself a favor and change your migration with a line like this:

  t.decimal :number, :precision => 10, :scale => 3

That's all it takes to use decimals (with 3 digits following the decimal
point)
in the database too.

HTH,

Peter

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