Any way to store instance of ActiveRecord as a string in dat

Rails
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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