This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Ruby Buzz by Tobias Luetke. Original Post: Money is everything Feed Title: too-biased Feed URL: http://blog.leetsoft.com/xml/rss/ Feed Description: Read the announcement: CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Baby!CD Baby is going rails. This is huge! If you don’t know CD Baby, its a distribution site with over 80.000 musicians under contract and its one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc.  Read all about it here. What is even more exciting about it is that I’m on board for the rewrite and I had chance to talk to Derek on the phone directly for a consulting session which might have played its little part in the decision to go with rails. Come monday I’ll work together with him and other rails contributor Jeremy Kemper to help crunch those 90k lines of PHP in beautifully compact code for which Rails and Ruby are known. Here is a quote from Derek’s announcement on his weblog: Like a lost soul walkin’ the earth, lookin’ for spirituality, that stumbles upon the right church with the right people at the right time, I’ve found my niche with Ruby. Its little itty-bitty community attracts some brilliant “think different” types with a love for beautiful code that do this for love, not money. Latest Ruby Buzz Posts Latest Ruby Buzz Posts by Tobias Luetke Latest Posts From too-biased

I can’t seem to send mails to the Rails mailing list currently ( It has been suggested in irc that I’m banned for lack of quality posts ). So I have to misuse this space to announce a small piece of code I want to publish.

In the last days I got some requests for the money class I use in snowdevil and while it is certainly nothing spectacular and some might even call the way the currency exchange works harmful here is it non the less:

Money class

Please help me extend this class and make something reasonable out of it.