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Typed serialize makes sure your serialized attribute is always the specified type.
= Typed Serialize
Typed serialize makes sure your serialized attribute is always the specified type. This is especially nice for serialized hashes and new models.
== Example
class User < ActiveRecord::Base typed_serialize :settings, Hash end
User.new.settings # => {}
u = User.new u.settings[:theme] = 1 u.settings # => { :theme => 1 }
== Define serialized attributes
=== Avalaible only for Hash columns!!!
class User < ActiveRecord::Base typed_serialize :settings, Hash
serialized_accessor :settings, :photo, :city, :nickname
end
u = User.new u.photo = '/home/photos/me.png' u.photo => '/home/photos/me.png' u.settings =>{:photo=>'/home/photos/me.png'}
or even better
class User < ActiveRecord::Base typed_serialize :settings, Hash, :photo, :city, :nickname
end
u = User.new(:city=>'NY') u.city => 'NY'
Also avalaible serialized_reader and serialized_writer.
== Install
As a Rails plugin:
./script/plugin install git://github.com/jqr/typed_serialize.git
Prefer gems? Add this to your environment.rb and run the following command.
config.gem 'typed_serialize'
$ rake gems:install
== Docs
http://rdoc.info/projects/jqr/typed_serialize
== Contributors
- Toby Matejovsky ([email protected])
- Sergey Pchelincev ([email protected])
Homepage:: http://github.com/jqr/typed_serialize License:: Copyright (c) 2008 Elijah Miller mailto:[email protected], released under the MIT license
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