Round a ruby float up or down to the nearest 0.05

Here's a general function that rounds by any given step value:

place in lib:

lib/rounding.rb
class Numeric
  # round a given number to the nearest step
  def round_by(increment)
    (self / increment).round * increment
  end
end

and the spec:

require 'rounding'
describe 'nearest increment by 0.5' do
  {0=>0.0,0.5=>0.5,0.60=>0.5,0.75=>1.0, 1.0=>1.0, 1.25=>1.5, 1.5=>1.5}.each_pair do |val, rounded_val|
    it "#{val}.round_by(0.5) ==#{rounded_val}" do val.round_by(0.5).should == rounded_val end
  end
end

and usage:

require 'rounding'
2.36363636363636.round_by(0.05)

hth.

I know that the question is old, but I like to share my invention with the world to help others: this is a method for rounding float number with step, rounding decimal to closest given number; it's usefull for rounding product price for example:

def round_with_step(value, rounding)
  decimals = rounding.to_i
  rounded_value = value.round(decimals)

  step_number = (rounding - rounding.to_i) * 10
  if step_number != 0
    step = step_number * 10**(0-decimals)
    rounded_value = ((value / step).round * step)
  end

  return (decimals > 0 ? "%.2f" : "%g") % rounded_value
end

# For example, the value is 234.567
#
# | ROUNDING | RETURN | STEP
# | 1        | 234.60 | 0.1
# | -1       | 230    | 10
# | 1.5      | 234.50 | 5 * 0.1 = 0.5
# | -1.5     | 250    | 5 * 10  = 50
# | 1.3      | 234.60 | 3 * 0.1 = 0.3
# | -1.3     | 240    | 3 * 10  = 30