> While upgrading an app to 2.2.1 I noticed a change in the behavior of
> serialized attributes in ActiveRecord.
>
> I have an AR model with a serialized attribute which is used to store either
> a fixnum of an array of fixnums. Previously, a single fixnum stored in this
> attribute would be returned as a fixnum, however since a recent commit [1]
> it is now returned as a string.
>
> I'm not sure whether is a typical use case, but it doesn't seem like
> expected behavior. I started looking at creating a patch but it became
> non-trivial as I strayed off into ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Quoting.
> So instead, I thought it better I get some feedback here.

Seems like this should function correctly:

>> YAML.dump(1)
=> "--- 1\n"

I assume the database column is ending up with a literal "1" in it,
without the yaml prefix?  If so, does overwriting your setter method
fix that for you?

def whatever=(v)
  write_attribute(:whatever, YAML.dump(v))
end


> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> [1]
> http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c94ba8150a726da4a894cd8325ee682a3286ec9f
>
> >
>



-- 
Cheers

Koz

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