On 10 Jan 2011, at 18:52, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 10, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 10, 5:24 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> But no matter what I try to unserialize it, I always get an empty array as 
>>> the result. Is this because of the association overriding my attempt to set 
>>> a new array at the same name? I don't get any errors, but I don't get any 
>>> data either.
>>> 
>> Is there also an association named children ?
> 
> No, children is just a text column on Composition, and Ad doesn't have 
> anything like it. I've tried the following in console: (paraphrasing because 
> I'm not at my computer)
> 

Does it make any difference if you dump self.ads.to_a instead of self.ads?

Fred
> c = Composition.find 39
> [big hash of object data]
> c.children
> "" (empty string)
> c.serialize_children
> (big base64 string)
> c.children
> (same big.base64 string)
> c.unserialize_children
> [] (empty array)
> 
> Walter
> 
> 
>> 
>> Fred
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> 
>>> Walter
>> 
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