Did someone encountered a problem of putting a hash of values into
AR, into a certain field?
Essentially I need some denormalized, freeform serializable hash to
which the user can add keys and values, and handle accessors from
there would be lovely too. I remember that AR has “serialize” but did
someone actually use it? I heard nothing but complaints about rich
objects in AR columns.
On Jun 18, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov wrote:
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Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov
me at julik.nl
Julian-
I have used a serialized hash in a some models before and it worked
great for free form stuff. Of course you lose the ability to search
these fields with sql but I think thats an ok trade off for free form
values. Although you can use ferret to index the serialized hashes to
allow for search within the hashes as well. All in all it is a very
workable solution to a freeform data column. And I see no problems
with it as long as you are aware of the limitations.
Cheers-
-Ezra
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