I was trying to write a wrapper for number_to_currency to return currency in pounds. I used a helper class to do this.
def number_to_pounds(amt) number_to_currency(amt, :unit => "£") end This works fine, but I am trying to understand why I can't use a symbol to pass the values. I thought symbols were like pointers. (you now know I am a newbie). def number_to_pounds(:amt) number_to_currency(:amt, :unit => "£") end Note - amt is not the name of the variable my view works on, it is price, so I tried the symbol :price, it wouldn't work either. I am googling to learn about the symbols. Any link for that would be really helpful. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
