Working With Rails

Rails Money

= Rails Money

Note! This is NOT compatible with the ‘money’ gem!

A handler for storing money in ActiveRecord objects as integers (as cents), but dealing with them as Money Objects.

Note: Dividing a money object will return an array of Money objects. This ensures cents do not go missing.

For example:

money = Money.new(10.00) => #<money:0xb76b3e14> money / 3 => [#<money:0xb76b3e14>, #<money:0xb76b3f2c>, #<money:0xb76b3f04>]

All other operations (+, -, *, and Comparable stuff) will work without any surprises or magic.

Installation

./script/plugin install svn://svn.nullcreations.net/plugins/rails_money

Usage

Create your tables with fields named FIELDNAME_in_cents and you will be able to access them as FIELDNAME. ActiveRecord will return Money objects instead of Fixnums.

add_column :products, :price_in_cents, :integer

product = Product.find_first
product.price = 100.00
product.price >> #<money>

Creating a Money can be done from a Fixnum (dollars) or a Float (dollars.cents). To create a money object from just cents, do Money.create_from_cents(100)

== Feedback

Any suggestions, fixes, or improvements – lemme know, jerrett at gmail

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