Learning Rails

NumberHelper

The NumberHelper class provides convenience methods for formatting numbers:

number_to_currency

Turns a number into a currency representation. You can select the :unit (denomination), :separator (normally .), :delimiter (normally , ), :format (whether the currency comes before or after the number), and :precision (normally 2).

number_to_human_size

Turns file-size byte counts into more typical human representations, like 12 GB.

number_to_percentage

Turns a number into a percent value. You can select the :precision (normally three digits after the decimal), and the :separator (normally .).

number_to_phone

Turns a number into an American-style telephone number. You can specify a country code, extension, delimiter, and whether or not the area code has parentheses, but you can’t specify how the numbers are broken down.

number_with_delimiter

Formats a number with a given :delimiter between thousands (, by default) and decimal :separator (. by default).

number_with_precision

Formats a number to present as many digits after the decimal point as are specified in the second argument (three is the default).