Question

I am storing a cost in my application. The cost is not formatted in the database. For example: 00.00 saves as 0, 1.00 saves as 1, and 40.50 saves as 40.5

I need to read these values from the database and convert them to strings for dollars and cents. For example: 0 –> cost_dollars = ’00’ & cost_cents = ’00’, 1 –> cost_dollars = ’01’ & cost_cents = ’00’, 40.5 –> cost_dollars = ’40’ & cost_cents = ’50’.

Is there an easy way to do this in ruby on rails? Or does someone have code that does this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can accomplish that with this little bit of Ruby code:

fmt = '%05.2f' % cost cost_dollars, cost_cents = fmt.split '.'