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Subject: Re: [ANN] Latinum, a library for money, currencies, general resources, etc
From: Samuel Williams <space.ship.traveller () gmail ! com>
Date: 2015-08-19 15:40:24
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Let me first say that the Money gem is a fine piece of work in the sense
that it exists and people use it.
Many of my motivations came from that gem, seeing where I thought it had
deficiencies, and thinking about how I wanted to deal with Money in my data
model. Some of the original ideas behind Latinum were discussed here:
https://github.com/RubyMoney/money/issues/195
My gut feeling is that the Money gem is over designed and under delivers on
critical parts.
I don't feel it has a clean set of abstractions for dealing with resources
and I didn't like the use of global Currency objects. This is a fundamental
part of Latinum, the `Latinum::Resource` value type which has a decimal
amount and a face name (e.g. USD).
At the time, I also felt that it wasn't obvious how to sum up Money
instances. Do you need a zero value? The answer to this in my case was
`Latinum::Collection` which allows you to aggregate resources and compute
totals.
Finally the Money gem is big, pulling in quite a few external dependencies.
I wanted something small and simple, flexible and modular.
Since I had some ideas about what I wanted, I decided to implement it. Over
the years, it has proven useful in several open source and commercial
projects.
Thanks for your interest.
Kind regards,
Samuel
On 19 August 2015 at 22:20, Jakub Pavl=C3=ADk <severus@post.cz> wrote:
> What is the main advantage of latinum compared with the widely used gem
> "money"?
>
> Jakub
>
> ---------- P=C5=AFvodn=C3=AD zpr=C3=A1va ----------
> Od: Samuel Williams <space.ship.traveller@gmail.com>
> Komu: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
> Datum: 19. 8. 2015 10:17:59
> P=C5=99edm=C4=9Bt: [ANN] Latinum, a library for money, currencies, genera=
l
> resources, etc
>
> Hi. Just a quick announcement. I've recently updated a project called
> Latinum which is useful for money and currency manipulation. It can be us=
ed
> with ActiveRecord and Relaxo natively for integration with database.
>
> https://github.com/ioquatix/latinum
>
> Kind regards, Samuel.
>
>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Let me first say that the Money gem is a fine piece of work in \
the sense that it exists and people use it.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of my \
motivations came from that gem, seeing where I thought it had deficiencies, and \
thinking about how I wanted to deal with Money in my data model. Some of the original \
ideas behind Latinum were discussed here: <a \
href="https://github.com/RubyMoney/money/issues/195">https://github.com/RubyMoney/money/issues/195</a></div><div><br></div><div>My \
gut feeling is that the Money gem is over designed and under delivers on critical \
parts.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't feel it has a clean set of abstractions \
for dealing with resources and I didn't like the use of global Currency objects. \
This is a fundamental part of Latinum, the `Latinum::Resource` value type which has a \
decimal amount and a face name (e.g. USD).</div><div><br></div><div>At the time, I \
also felt that it wasn't obvious how to sum up Money instances. Do you need a \
zero value? The answer to this in my case was `Latinum::Collection` which allows you \
to aggregate resources and compute totals.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally the Money \
gem is big, pulling in quite a few external dependencies. I wanted something small \
and simple, flexible and modular.</div><div><br></div><div>Since I had some ideas \
about what I wanted, I decided to implement it. Over the years, it has proven useful \
in several open source and commercial projects.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for \
your interest.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind \
regards,</div><div>Samuel</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On 19 August 2015 at 22:20, Jakub Pavlík <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:severus@post.cz" target="_blank">severus@post.cz</a>></span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>What is the main advantage of latinum compared with \
the widely used gem "money"?<div><br></div><div>Jakub</div><div><br><p>---------- \
Původní zpráva ----------<br>Od: Samuel Williams <<a \
href="mailto:space.ship.traveller@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">space.ship.traveller@gmail.com</a>><br>Komu: ruby-talk ML <<a \
href="mailto:ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org" \
target="_blank">ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org</a>><br>Datum: 19. 8. 2015 \
10:17:59<br>Předmět: [ANN] Latinum, a library for money, currencies, general \
resources, etc</p><span class=""><br><blockquote><div><div>Hi. Just a quick \
announcement. I've recently updated a project called Latinum which is useful for \
money and currency manipulation. It can be used with ActiveRecord and Relaxo natively \
for integration with database.<div><br></div><div><a \
href="https://github.com/ioquatix/latinum" \
target="_blank">https://github.com/ioquatix/latinum</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind \
regards, Samuel.</div></div> \
</div></blockquote></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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