Oh! I thought the point was that I could save any object... are you saying I can only save hash's?
On Feb 14, 9:12 pm, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > Summary.new is expecting to receive a hash, which isn't what you're > giving it. > > i.e.: > summary = Summary.new( :summary_data => { "name"=>"Administator", > "login"=>"admin" } ) > > summary.save! > > Summary.last.summary_data > => {"name"=>"Administrator", "login"=>"admin"} > > On Feb 14, 5:29 am, phil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi. > > I want to serialize out an object to the database. But I am getting an > > integer value in the column when I expect to see some yaml! > > > migration: > > class CreateSummaries < ActiveRecord::Migration > > def self.up > > create_table :summaries do |t| > > t.text :summary_data > > t.timestamps > > end > > end > > end > > > class: > > class Summary < ActiveRecord::Base > > serialize :summary_data > > end > > > example: > > summary = Summary.new(:summary_data => User.first) > > => #<Summary id: nil, fss_player_id: nil, stats_type: nil, scope: nil, > > summary_data: #<User id: 4, login: "LoginName", email: "[email protected]", > > crypted_password: "cbc8411974ad085f608b6e0a05dd608e7577de19", salt: > > "ddc4528beea65095b7f5619912a6ca0681d0c10e", created_at: "2008-09-12 > > 18:43:19", updated_at: "2009-02-05 04:20:58", remember_token: nil, > > remember_token_expires_at: nil, pw_reset_code: nil, role: > > "commissioner", sign_up_code: > > "44e11a23be5b7833bf73d479a05166c0e0377c56", reset_password_code_until: > > nil, permalink: "fname", name: "FName", street: nil, city: nil, > > province: nil, postcode: nil, country: nil, home_phone: nil, > > mobile_phone: nil, display_name: "FName", display_teams: true, > > website: nil, occupation: nil, interests: nil, favourite_teams: nil, > > anonymous_contact: false>, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>>> summary.save! > > => true > > >> Summary.first.summary_data > > > => 4 > > > What am I doing wrong? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
