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      <diff>@@ -56,3 +56,19 @@ Tested on Rails 2.3.2.
       end
     end
 
+## Persisting the state to the database
+
+    class TrafficLight &lt; ActiveRecord::Base
+      include ActiveModel::StateMachine
+
+        # Write state variable
+        def write_state(sm, new_state)
+          self.state = new_state.to_s
+        end
+
+        # Read state variable
+        def read_state(sm)
+          self.state.blank? ? nil : self.state.to_sym
+        end
+      end
+    end</diff>
      <filename>README.md</filename>
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  <author>
    <name>barttenbrinke</name>
    <email>info@retrosync.com</email>
  </author>
  <url>http://github.com/barttenbrinke/active_model_state_machine_backport/commit/7ea7e231258e18a6ed114d56b7e382023e544106</url>
  <id>7ea7e231258e18a6ed114d56b7e382023e544106</id>
  <committed-date>2009-11-09T12:34:36-08:00</committed-date>
  <authored-date>2009-11-09T12:34:36-08:00</authored-date>
  <message>Added state persitancy docs</message>
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  <committer>
    <name>barttenbrinke</name>
    <email>info@retrosync.com</email>
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