Re: Representing money

We use integers "cents" with money <https://github.com/RubyMoney/money> on
a multi-currency marketplace and works as expected. I'm grateful.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 1:37 PM Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 8, 2019, at 10:25 AM, Andy Jones <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Re: “Behaviour of round changed?”.
> >
> > Pardon my curiosity -- what do you use to represent money in your code?
> It seems to me that the choices are between:
> >
> > 1)      BigDecimal
> >
> > 2)      Rational
> >
> > 3)      A custom class
> >
> > To my way of thinking, if you are multi-currency, you almost certainly
> want #3; but otherwise it’s down to personal preference?  I plumped for
> BigDecimal, but I wonder if it would have been easier on me if I had gone
> for Rational instead?
> >
> >
>
> I use integer "cents" and the Money gem to deal with the localization
> details. This works perfectly in a multi-currency Web store. I only ever
> store cents, and convert all presentations on the fly into whatever passes
> for dollars and cents with a decorator method wrapped around Money:
>
> ...
> Money.new(price_in_cents, currency).format
> ...
>
> Walter
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