Easy to read scientific notation on Rails console

Question

I have a Postgresql table column which's type is numeric(20,4). When I play with the data through rails console, ActiveRecord display the values in scientific notation.

All I can think of adding attribute :column_name, :float to the related modal, but not sure if there will be any side effects because of it.

So the question is; does anyone one if there is anything I can do to make it easier for reading the data on rails console and do not have any side effects on the app itself?

Answer 1

You can monkeypatch specifically BigDecimal class specifically for console

development.rb

  console do
    class BigDecimal
      def inspect
        to_f
      end
    end
  end