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Hello, to implement some some kind of optimistic locking, I want to build a view, where an object is displayed together with a link containing the data of the displayed object. My first try looked something like <%= object.object_discription %> <%= link_to "action", :action => "take_action", :data => object %> this won''t work because object is of a class derived from ActiveRecord and thus only the object.id will be transmitted. Next I''ve tried some approaches to stringinize or...