Try this out (assuming you've got a User with id == 1): summary = Summary.new(:summary_data => User.find(1).attributes).save!
Go here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html and search for serialize On Feb 14, 11:35 pm, phil <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
