# Formatting amount

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/formatting-amount/62875>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 8, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/formatting-amount/62875 "2006-06-08T23:33:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![hariraj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/4491bb/32.png) [@hariraj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hariraj)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/formatting-amount/62875/1 "2006-06-08T23:33:35Z")

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Hi,

What is the best way to format amount in RoR?

e.g $12000.937 =\> $12,000.94

Thanks,  
Hari

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**Author:** ![hariraj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/4491bb/32.png) [@hariraj](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hariraj)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/formatting-amount/62875/2 "2006-06-15T19:22:10Z")

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On Jun 8, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Nara H. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What is the best way to format amount in RoR?
> 
> e.g $12000.937 =\> $12,000.94
> 
> Thanks,  
> Hari

You can grab the code from: [http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/](http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/)  
show/NumericFormat  
and put it into your lib directory and add a require to your  
environment.rb.

or just look at [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/)  
NumberHelper.html#M000449

-Rob

Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com)  
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