hey (first post jitters..) Im a baby in rails web development-please be obvious How would I get an array as a column set of data? Could I just generate the table with: title:string description:text .... list:array Is array there valid? If its not possible is there a way to contain a list of data that can be added to by the app. Thanks plenty
2009/9/28 sajeev86 <sajeev86-ee4meeAH724@public.gmane.org>:> > hey (first post jitters..) > Im a baby in rails web development-please be obvious > > How would I get an array as a column set of data? > Could I just generate the table with: > > title:string description:text .... list:array > > Is array there valid? > > If its not possible is there a way to contain a list of data that can > be added to by the app.If I understand correctly you want to put the contents of an entire array into a single record in a table. Whilst this is possible by encoding the contents into a string this is often not the best solution to the underlying problem. Give us some more details of what you are trying to achieve, there may be a better way, using has_many and belongs_to relationships for example. It might be worth your while first looking at the rails guides on ActiveRecord relationships at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ (and also Getting Started if you have not already seen that one). These might give some ideas on alternative solutions. Colin
No, not valid; you want an association. Read here: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=rails+database+cardinality On Sep 27, 4:20 pm, sajeev86 <sajee...-ee4meeAH724@public.gmane.org> wrote:> hey (first post jitters..) > Im a baby in rails web development-please be obvious > > How would I get an array as a column set of data? > Could I just generate the table with: > > title:string description:text .... list:array > > Is array there valid? > > If its not possible is there a way to contain a list of data that can > be added to by the app. > > Thanks plenty