Rails - May 2007 - Any way to store instance of ActiveRecord as a string in database

Greetings,
I was wondering if any one had a suggestion for how I should approach
a problem:


I am interested in storing an instance of ActiveRecord as a string in
a database and reconstituting or converting it back into ActiveRecord
at a later time-basically capturing the object in a database, but not
as a database row in the traditional sense.

I can do this by storing the attributes of the instance in the
database and later iterating through them, but I was hoping that I
could basically serialize the entire object, store it in the db, and
recall it later to reap the benefits of ActiveRecord.

Thanks in advance.

David


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then use serialize.
hmm.

Saving arrays, hashes, and other non-mappable objects in text columns:

"Active Record can serialize any object in text columns using YAML. To 
do so, you must specify this with a call to the class method serialize. 
This makes it possible to store arrays, hashes, and other non-mappable 
objects without doing any additional work."

taken from api.rubyonrails.com --> search for serialize.
hth,

shai

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thanks shai
david

On May 27, 3:33 am, shai
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> then use serialize.
> hmm.
>
> Saving arrays, hashes, and other non-mappable objects in text columns:
>
> "Active Record can serialize any object in text columns using YAML. To
> do so, you must specify this with a call to the class method serialize.
> This makes it possible to store arrays, hashes, and other non-mappable
> objects without doing any additional work."
>
> taken from api.rubyonrails.com --> search for serialize.
> hth,
>
> shai
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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