[LRUG] Prices and Precision

Ed Davey ed at veryreal.co.uk
Sun Nov 18 04:19:18 PST 2007


>
> What's the best way to store prices in a Ruby (Rails) app?  What's the
> best SQL type for mySQL?
>

I've been storing prices in pence as integers and using Brad Folkens  
Model Formatter:

http://brad.folkens.com/formatting-data-in-rails-models

to display and enter prices in £2.99 format.

This is working well for me so far...

ED




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