README.rdoc in nofxx-money-2.3.8 vs README.rdoc in nofxx-money-2.3.9

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@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ - Represents monetary values as integers, in cents. This avoids floating point rounding errors. - Provides APIs for exchanging money from one currency to another. - Has the ability to parse a money string into a Money object. - Provides ActiveRecord "has_money" method. +- Autofetch rates from ECB - == Install gem sources -a http://gems.github.com gem install <this-fork>-money @@ -82,14 +82,24 @@ Money.default_bank = ExchangeBankWhichScrapesXeDotCom.new === Default Currency -By default Money defaults to USD as its currency. This can be overwritten using: +Money defaults to USD as its currency. This can be overwritten using: Money.default_currency = "CAD" If you use Rails, then environment.rb is a very good place to put this. + + +=== Autofetch rates + +By default, Money won't fetch the rates automatically, you need to call: @bank.fetch_rates + +If you have your bank default rates configured, it'll fetch all possible rates from it, +if you don't, It'll fetch all rates to and from your default_currency. + +Money uses the ECB XML Feed. == Webapps === Ruby on Rails