Decimal numbers pain

[Fernando Perez]

Hi,

What do you guys use to definitely handle decimal numbers? This is
getting me crazy!

I use BigDecimal, but it craps out of the input number is something like
"14,53", Rails transforms it as 14.0

Any solution?
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[Greg Willits]

> What do you guys use to definitely handle decimal numbers? This is
> getting me crazy!
>
> I use BigDecimal, but it craps out of the input number is something like
> "14,53", Rails transforms it as 14.0
>
> Any solution?

Are you really using the comma in the data?

This IRB session suggests what might be happening (unless there's a en
ENV flag that allows the comma?):

>> require 'bigdecimal'
=> true
>> x = BigDecimal
=> BigDecimal
>> x = 14.4564
=> 14.4564
>> x = 14,4564
=> [14, 4564]

[Fernando Perez]

It seems Rails does it a bit differently. Anyway I was able to find a
solution:

http://gem-session.com/2010/03/how-to-use-the-comma-as-decimal-separator-in-rails-activerecord-columns-and-text-fields

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