Worth exploring! It's often expected that methods like these work with any Numeric. The float case comes up when you do duration math, like "10% of N years" or "average age of X."
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 21:56 Brian Christian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > There are some scientific data sets that use floating-point numbers for > years, and I’ve been thinking about adding this to Rails. > > For instance, the ice core CO2 measurements here > <http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/antarctica2015co2composite.txt> > uses > the standard “Years Before Present” unit, which is floating point by > default. > > At present there is no way (to my knowledge) to ingest these values > cleanly into Rails. > > If there is interest in merging something to adapt the .years method for > use with Floats so that scientific data sets like these can be more > easily handled in Rails, I can prepare a PR. > > > Brian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
