Different behavior for BigDecimal#floor in Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9
Ruby 1.8 (supplied by Rails' ActiveSupport)
>> BigDecimal.new("0.1").floor.class
=> BigDecimal
Ruby 1.9 (supplied by Ruby 1.9 itself)
>> BigDecimal.new("0.1").floor.class
=> Fixnum
In fact, Float#floor
has changed from
Ruby1.8
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to
Ruby 1.9
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which is used by BigDecimal#floor
internally.
Attached initializer backports Ruby 1.9 behavior to Ruby 1.8.