From isak.hansen at gmail.com  Mon Jan  7 09:30:03 2008
From: isak.hansen at gmail.com (Isak Hansen)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:30:03 +0100
Subject: [Rails I18n] L10n of numbers?
Message-ID: <6b9e1eb20801070630nf7cad4cm6cb54bc62e1a5162@mail.gmail.com>

I need to localize numbers in text fields and have been looking at the
various L10n plugins that claim to have number support. Support seems
to mean that the plugin includes a Number#to_localized_string method,
which isn't very useful for my purposes.

I figure I could build my own numeric_field helper easy enough; the
question is how I'd go about parsing the input before it reaches
Rails.

Currently I'm thinking along the lines of prefixing the field names
with some string, e.g. 'numeric_value_', parsing the (possibly nested)
parameter hash (from a before filter?) looking for these things, and
then adding them back into params as standard English-formatted
numbers without the prefix.

Thoughts/feedback..?


Regards,
Isak