On 5 Jan 2009, at 20:08, Tom Lobato wrote:
> > > How they differ? > > Does the to_xml method of the classes array/hash/object is based on > ROXML lib? > As I see in http://roxml.rubyforge.org/#quickstart, roxml needs we > define the class (class Book in the guide) before to convert a object > to xml. Moreover, the method to_xml (when not using "include ROXML") > just accepts any existing object, what is much suitable. > roxml is trying to solve a more general problem - if you models aren't activerecord models then they are not going to have a particularly useful to_xml on it (the time i used it was generated xml to pass to a webservice) It's also pretty handy for parsing incoming xml. Fred > I need to compare and tranfer some records between local and remote > systems periodically. The tables (mysql) has simple varchar/integer/ > date/decimal types. > Which type of xml mapping is recommended to achieve this task? ROXML > or pure to_xml method? > > > > Thank you! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
