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BigDecimal#inspect for people who aren't cyborgs

Henning Koch
June 27, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH
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I wonder if the guy that wrote BigDecimal#inspect has a tragic backstory that explains why he hates humanity.

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I finally gave up and made BigDecimal#inspect return BigDecimal#to_s:

p BigDecimal.new('2.3') #=> "2.3"

Use the attached initializer.

big_decimal_pretty_inspect.rb
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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2012-06-27 16:20)
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