Concept #3: Dealing with Money (Globally this time)

[Aubermean]

My thought on this conerstone of the vision is this:

Shopify is powerful in the Ruby/Rails sphere. They open source a lot of their code as they abstract it out of their private repos. And of course you can expect highly tested and performant packages, that will be supported and developed for a long long time.

I propose that Maybe replace all custom implementation to rely heavily on the money and worldwide gems for handling financial transactions and currencies. The latter adds a lot more than just currencies, too, that will help with general globalization of the application.

Think about more complex use cases, like what if a Japanese user wants to add CNY alongside JPY? Did you know that its € 6,50 in the Netherlands, €6.50 in Ireland, and 6,50 € in France? It can also be 10 000.00, 10,000.00 or 10.000,00!

https://github.com/Shopify/money
https://github.com/Shopify/worldwide?tab=readme-ov-file#--currency-support

[ccrisc]

[Aubermean]

Thanks for the words of support, ChatGPT!

[zachgoll]

@Aubermean money is definitely a tricky one! We've got a Money class implemented in the current codebase that allows us to do complex formatting as you mentioned, and it's fairly similar to the Shopify implementation (without all the extra cents splitting that won't be needed in our app).

Happy to answer any questions around this.