I was hoping 1.1 would provide a way to map SQL “decimal” column types
to BigDecimal values, since BigDecimal is part of the Ruby standard api
as of 1.8.
But I don’t see any support for that in the migration documentation, and
when I try to let Active Record do the mapping for me, it seems to
coerce the column into a Float (as the AwdwR book says).
Is it really there in 1.1 but I just don’t know what to do to tap into
it? Or is it still not part of ActiveRecord yet?
I’ve heard about Tobias’ “Money” plug-in but I’m not sure I want to go
that route unless I have to.
Storing money values should be very common - any shopping-cart style web
app will need to - but using floats can give rounding errors that can be
hard to spot (unlike the decimal type).
Any ideas? Maybe I’m missing something obvious?
Thanks!
Jeff