This is a simple gem to help you to deal with currency conversion and simple arithmetics operations at different rates.
Add this to your gem file
gem 'money', git: '[email protected]:pedrohenriquerls/money.git'
and after this execute the bundle
bundle install
After this, you can require the gem to use where you want
You will need to define the conversion rates before using this awesome features
# Configure the currency rates with respect to a base currency (here EUR):
Money.conversion_rates('EUR', {
'USD' => 1.11,
'Bitcoin' => 0.0047
})# Instantiate money objects:
fifty_eur = Money.new(50, 'EUR')
# Get amount and currency:
fifty_eur.amount # => 50
fifty_eur.currency # => "EUR"
fifty_eur.inspect # => "50.00 EUR"
# Instantiate money objects with different currencies
twenty_dollars = Money.new(20, 'USD')# Convert to a different currency
fifty_eur.convert_to('USD') # => 55.50 USD (New money object)fifty_eur + twenty_dollars # => 68.02 EUR
fifty_eur - twenty_dollars # => 31.98 EUR
fifty_eur / 2 # => 25 EUR
twenty_dollars * 3 # => 60 USDtwenty_dollars == Money.new(20, 'USD') # => true
twenty_dollars == Money.new(30, 'USD') # => false
fifty_eur_in_usd = fifty_eur.convert_to('USD')
fifty_eur_in_usd == fifty_eur # => true
twenty_dollars > Money.new(5, 'USD') # => true
twenty_dollars < fifty_eur # => trueBug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/pedrohenriquerls/money.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.