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    <p>I am making a simple retail commerce solution, where there are <strong>prices</strong> in a few different models. These prices contribute to a <strong>total price</strong>. Imagine paying $0.30 more for selecting a topping for your yogurt. </p> <p>When I set the <code>price</code> field to </p> <pre><code>t.decimal :price, precision:8, scale:2 </code></pre> <p>The database stores <code>6.50</code> as <code>6.5</code>. I know in the standard rails way, you call <code>number_to_currency(price)</code> to get the formatted value in the Views. I need to programmatically call the <code>price</code> field as well formatted string, i.e. $6.50 a few places that are not directly part of the View. Also, my needs are simple (no currency conversion etc), I prefer to have the price formatted universally in the model without repeated calling number_to_currency in views.</p> <p>Is there a good way I can modify my getter for price such that it always returns two decimal place with a dollar sign, i.e. $6.50 when it's called? </p> <p>Thanks in advance.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>Thanks everyone.</p> <p>I've elected to use Alex's approach because it seems very 'hackish' to do the includes just for formatting the number. Using his approach, I did:</p> <pre><code> def price_change=(val) write_attribute :price_change, val.to_s.gsub(/[\$]/,'').to_d end def price_change "$%.2f" % self[:price_change] end </code></pre> <p>Cheers. </p> <p><strong>UPDATE 2</strong></p> <p>Caveat Emptor. Once you do this, you lose the ability to do operations to the number because it's now a string. </p> <p>Please beware if anyone is facing the same problem as me.</p>
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