Rails - Dec 2005 - Specifying a binary field in test fixtures

One of my fields holds binary data (a serialized object), and I''d like
to be able to create fixtures that have this data.  I can just use erb
to build the object, but I don''t know how to write the fixture file
such that the object is serialized.  Anyone know how to do this?

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On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
> One of my fields holds binary data (a serialized object), and I''d
like
> to be able to create fixtures that have this data.  I can just use erb
> to build the object, but I don''t know how to write the fixture
file
> such that the object is serialized.  Anyone know how to do this?
YAML supports Base64-encoded binary values
   http://yaml.org/type/binary.html

jeremy
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How do I specify this in the YAML file?  And then when I''m accessing
the object, how do I ensure that it''s an object of the type I want,
not just a string stored in the db?

Pat


On 12/12/05, Jeremy Kemper
<jeremy-w7CzD/W5Ocjk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
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> On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:
> > One of my fields holds binary data (a serialized object), and
I''d like
> > to be able to create fixtures that have this data.  I can just use erb
> > to build the object, but I don''t know how to write the
fixture file
> > such that the object is serialized.  Anyone know how to do this?
>
> YAML supports Base64-encoded binary values
>    http://yaml.org/type/binary.html
>
> jeremy
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