thank you, i am using the odbc adapter. will look into the plugin you
mention

On Monday, December 2, 2013, Jeremy Evans wrote:

> On Monday, December 2, 2013 12:23:34 AM UTC-8, Giovanni Gervasio wrote:
>
>> Sorry if this is a trivial question.
>>
>> I have a table in SQL server thus:
>>
>>  CREATE TABLE widgets
>>  (
>>    id INT Identity(1, 1) PRIMARY KEY,
>>    name VARCHAR(12),
>>    cost MONEY
>>  )
>>
>> SELECT * FROM widgets
>>
>> id          name         cost
>> ----------- ------------ ---------------------
>>           1 compass                    74.9900
>>           2 hat                        49.9900
>>           3 book                       19.9900
>>
>>
>> and a Widget class
>>
>> class Widget < Sequel::Model
>> end
>>
>> Contrary to my expectations, Widget.cost has class String'.
>>
>> Widget[1].cost + Widget[2].cost
>> => "74.990049.9900"
>>
>>  To perform any arithmetics I have to convert 'cost' explicitly to a
>> numeric type. I am sure that there is a way to have the model store and
>> return a BigDecimal, or another numeric type, but I could not find it.
>>
>
> Which adapter are you using?  If you are using the tinytds adapter, Sequel
> relies on tiny_tds to do the conversion, so in that case you need to talk
> to the tiny_tds developers.
>
> For models, you may be able to work around this using the typecast_on_load
> plugin.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>
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