[Rails] What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US?

2013-09-24 Thread Fai Wong
What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US? Right now trying to make it flexible to show the money and symbol correctly based on the currency string (like 'USD' or 'AUD') stored against the user's record. I need to be able to do the following based on say 'GBP'

Re: [Rails] What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US?

2013-09-24 Thread Walter Lee Davis
You could make a helper that would extract this value from the user and translate the display string. If you set up a hash like {'USD' = :en-US, 'GBP' = :en-BG, ...} then there would be one place to look for the correct symbol. Walter On Sep 24, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Fai Wong wrote: What is the

Re: [Rails] What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US?

2013-09-24 Thread Peter Hickman
Hang on do you mean to convert USD 1000 into AUD 1000? Surely you would need to do a currency conversion because USD 1000 is AUD 1064. This would seem to have nothing to do with locales at all. On 24 September 2013 16:58, Walter Lee Davis wa...@wdstudio.com wrote: You could make a helper that

Re: [Rails] What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US?

2013-09-24 Thread Walter Lee Davis
I just saw a gem on RubyFlow last week that handles currency conversions using Google as a data source. If that's what you're after, forget what I said and use that. Walter On Sep 24, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Peter Hickman wrote: Hang on do you mean to convert USD 1000 into AUD 1000? Surely you