> Hi all,

> I'm working on a financial app, and have set up some columns in my
> tables as decimals with precision => 8 and scale => 2.  My migration
> looks like:

>     change_column :lineitems, :price, :decimal, :precision =>
> 8, :scale => 2
>     change_column :payments, :amount, :decimal, :precision =>
> 8, :scale => 2

> I've run the migration and restarted the server. I also looked at the
> Mysql tables to verify that the migration ran correctly, and the
> fields look like they're set up right ( DECIMAL(8,2) ).

> The problem is that when I access these columns in the console, they
> show up as Bigdecimal and it's messing up my calculations.  Here's
> what it looks like from the rails console:

> >> Lineitem.find(34).price
> => #<BigDecimal:31e4c74,'0.3E4',4(12)>
> >> Payment.find(23).amount
> => #<BigDecimal:31b8480,'0.4125E4',4(12)>

> What's going on here?  How do I get Rails to recognize that these are
> decimal/currency amounts?????