Rails usually does the translation for you. All you need to do is
access that attribute. If you saved it as an Array, then you should
treat the attribute like any other array. The other way is to save it
as a Hash and then you will treat it as a Hash when you access it.
On Sep 18, 8:28 am, Guy Van den berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
s.net> wrote:
> Tarscher wrote:
> > Thanks for the answer.
>
> > I can get the serialized object out of the database but it is now in
> > YAML format. How can I convert this back into my vlass object?
>
> > Thanks
>
> > On Apr 10, 5:49 pm, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Look at the Marshal module. From the API docs:
>
> class Klass
> def initialize(str)
> @str = str
> end
> def sayHello
> @str
> end
> end
>
> (produces no output)
>
> o = Klass.new("hello\n")
> data = Marshal.dump(o)
> obj = Marshal.load(data)
> obj.sayHello #=> "hello\n"
> --
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