rails currency gem or plugin...

Question

I'm shopping for a gem or plugin to help me convert between currencies and handle day to day exchange rate fluctuation.

I've found the gem currency: http://currency.rubyforge.org/

And a few other plugins...

http://wiki.github.com/jasonfranklin-stokes/currencyexchange

& http://jamesbrooks.net/2009/01/05/rails-cash-handler-plugin/

The gem is about 3 years out of date and some of it's sources don't even exist anymore. But all of them only support ~10 currencies. I would like one that supported as many currencies as possible. Possibly WebserviceX or another free API.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I'd have a look at the money gem http://dist.leetsoft.com/api/money/

I haven't used it much for exchange rates but it is decent for money related formatting and does support exchnge rate handling.

Answer 2

currencyexchange plugin looks like the go but I haven't tried it yet.

Answer 3

Check out my currencies gem at http://github.com/hexorx/currencies