On 5 September 2010 00:31, Tom Fielding <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Sorry if this is a noob question. > I'm trying to store a hash of values (a user's music collection) into a > single database record without having to have a separate row in the db for > each music track the user has in his collection. > e.g. User 9 > { 12319 => "Artist X: Song Name 1", > 12198 => "Artist X: Song Name 2", > 19180 => "Artist Y: Song Name 3", > 92810 => "Artist Z: Song Name 4" }
Not answering the question, I know, but I would advise against doing it this way. Have a tracks table, User has_many tracks, Track belongs_to user. Then for a user his tracks are current_user.tracks and for each track the artist and name are track.artist and track.name. You will not have to write all the code you are struggling with, Rails will do it for you. The less code you have to write the better. Colin -- 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.
