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Dollars And Cents

= dollars_and_cents plugin for Rails

A transparent handler for storing monetary values as integer fields in a database.

Installation

If your project is source-controlled by Subversion (which it should be, really), the easiest way to install this is via Rails' plugin script:

./script/plugin install -x http://svn.codahale.com/dollars_and_cents/trunk

If you're not using Subversion, or if you don't want it adding svn:externals in your project, remove the -x switch:

./script/plugin install http://svn.codahale.com/dollars_and_cents/trunk
Usage

In this example, let’s assume we have a price we need to store in our database.

1. Create a database field named price_in_cents, of type INTEGER. 2. Access the price as follows: @product.price #=> 29.99 @product.price = 24.99 #=> 24.99 @product.price #=> 24.99

Resources = Subversion
  • http://svn.codahale.com/dollars_and_cents

=== Blog

  • http://blog.codahale.com

== Credits

Written by Coda Hale <coda>.

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly