Rails: Is there a rails trick to adding commas to large numbers?

Question

Is there a way to have rails print out a number with commas in it?

For example, if I have a number 54000000.34, I can run <%= number.function %>, which would prin

Answer 1

The direct way to do this, with or without Rails, is:

require 'active_support/core_ext/numeric/conversions'

12345.to_s(:delimited)      # => "12,345"
12345.6789.to_s(:delimited) # => "12,345.6789"

For more options, see Active Support Core Extensions - Numeric - Formatting.