Changing the currency format for product prices within Spree

Question

I'm upgrading spree to from spree 1.0 to 1.3 and get stuck with the new currency options.

I want to render prices as: '€ 100' but instead get '€100'. How do I get a space between the unit and the value?

Note: Changing the locale file doesn't work, since it uses the money gem.

Answer 1

There are a bunch of ways to do this. The easiest would probably be to re-register the Euro currency with a different symbol.

Put the following in an initializer:

# encoding: utf-8
Money::Currency.register({
    :priority        => 1,
    :iso_code        => "EUR",
    :iso_numeric     => "978",
    :name            => "Euro",
    :symbol          => "€ ",
    :subunit         => "Cent",
    :subunit_to_unit => 100,
    :separator       => ".",
    :delimiter       => "," 
})

A rails console now reports:

> Spree::Money.new(100, currency: 'EUR')
=> € 100.00 

Answer 2

I did the following in my config/initializers/spree.rb to inject a different symbol:

Money::Currency.table[:chf].merge!(symbol: 'CHF ')

This way the currencies aren't going to mix up.