Thanks - I see said the blind man... all I had to do was to first convert big decimal to float and then the sprint function worked.
@price.to_f.to_fl(2) and I get what I wanted in the view...something displayed to 2 decimal places. The value is already stored with big_decimal precision...I just didn't know how to format it in a view, which turned out to be trickier than if I just a float value. Craig On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 06:59 -0700, Matt Jones wrote: > > The problem is that you're defining this method (to_fl) on Float, > while AR is returning you a BigDecimal. Have you tried defining the > method in the correct class? > > You don't appear to really want the "float value"; for large numbers, > it will lose a lot of precision (and thus the advantage of storing in > a :decimal column). > > --Matt Jones > > > On Jun 3, 1:53 am, Craig White <[email protected]> wrote: > > yeah, I'm sort of stuck in a rails 1.2.x time warp and am struggling > > with a bunch of the changes in 2.3.x - thus, it wasn't really the big > > decimal thing of mysql that was the problem. > > > > I forgot about to_f because frankly, I never used it. I primarily am > > concerned with view code here so I had just stuck that code to extend > > the Float class (which worked so well in 1.2.x)... > > > > class Float > > def to_fl(digits) > > sprintf("%.#{digits}f",self) > > end > > end > > > > and I could get a fixed number of digits whenever I wanted. Apparently > > this is like a very ineffective way to go about things in 2.3.x and to_f > > gives me whatever decimal places it believes are significant so I'm sort > > of trying to figure out how to locate the magic genie again. > > > > Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
