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What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US?

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What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US? Right now trying to make it flexible to show the money and symbol correctly based on the currency string (like 'USD' or 'AUD') stored against the user's record.

I need to be able to do the following based on say 'GBP' string:

  :en-GB) %>
posted Sep 24, 2013 by Jai Prakash

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You could make a helper that would extract this value from the user and translate the display string. If you set up a hash like {'USD' => :en-US, 'GBP' => :en-BG, ...} then there would be one place to look for the correct symbol.

answer Sep 24, 2013 by Satish Mishra
Do you mean to convert USD 1000 into AUD 1000? Surely you would need to do a currency conversion because USD 1000 is AUD 1064. This would seem to have nothing to do with locales at all.
commented Sep 24, 2013 by anonymous
I just saw a gem on RubyFlow last week that handles currency conversions using Google as a data source. If that's what you're after, forget what I said and use that.
commented Sep 24, 2013 by Garima Jain
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