How to strip commas from float input?

Question

I have a field -

:Revenue

and it should accept values like 10,000.00, but if I input such value it stores 10 into dat

Answer 1

Removing commas is pretty simple:

value.gsub(/,/, '').to_f

Keep in mind that European formatting often uses comma as the decimal value separator so your results would be off by a factor of 100 if processing those sorts of numbers.