From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-04-06T11:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: conversion to currency format

On Apr 5, 1:01 pm, Jinho Lee <jinh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any handy (or standard) method to convert a Ruby string
> "350000" or number 350000 to a US currency format such as: $350,000.00
> or just $350,000 (without cents)? Thanks in advance.

This is included in the ActionView library, that is also part of
Rails:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/NumberHelper.html#M000520