From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T06:33:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby?

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:09:50 +0900, Arfin <arfinmail@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there some kind of class to format numbers? Something to let you
> transform:
> 
> 1       =>      "0001"
> 1234    =>      "1,234.00"
> 
> I needed to display the day and month in a 00 format and the way I did
> it was adding a method to the Integer class
> 
> class Integer
>         def addZero
>                 return "0" + self.to_s if self.to_s.length == 1
>                 return self.to_s
>         end
> end
> t = Time.now
> p "The date is: #{t.year}#{t.month.addZero}#{t.day.addZero}"
> 
> What do you guys think of this solution?

Might be easier with "printf" - although if you're not familiar with
it, might take a bit of work to get the format right.
 
> On a side note, could you guys give a few rules of thumb you follow in
> order to make your code clean and readable?

Some helpful stuff here:
http://www.caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml

Happy Rubying
-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)