Rails - Aug 2006 - How to serialize a symbol coming from a Form

Hello, I would like to use serialized symbols as values for select in 
forms.

eg.
class Vehicle < ActiveRecord::Base
  @@statuses = {:wait => ''No yet'', :ok => ''Run
run run''}
  validates_inclusion_of status, :in => @@statutes.keys
  Serialize status, Symbol

  def self.statuses
    @@statuses
  end
end

Then, I can use Vehicle.statuses.invert to populate my select drop down 
list in the form.

Unfortunately when the form is submited the ''values'' sent are
not
recognized as a symbols and an error occurs
"status was supposed to be a Symbol, but was a String"

I understand that the value posted is "wait" or "ok" and not
:wait or
:ok but I didn''t found a way to convert them to symbols correctly.

in the controller using
vehicle.status = eval(":#{vehicle.status}")


Of course I might use strings as keys instead of symbols for the hashes 
but I find them less readable in the source code.

Any help appreciated, thanks


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I wanted to write :
in the controller using
vehicle.status = eval(":#{vehicle.status}")

didn''t helped

The code above is not real, forgive the typos

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nuno wrote:
> I wanted to write :
> in the controller using
> vehicle.status = eval(":#{vehicle.status}")
> 
> didn''t helped
> 
> The code above is not real, forgive the typos

Hi Nuno,

Here is the syntax:
"foo".to_sym


Jean-Etienne

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Fiiiiine !!

Merci / Thank you Jean Etienne !

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