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¶ ↑

rdoc.info/projects/jqr/typed_serialize

Contributors¶ ↑

• Toby Matejovsky (toby.matejovsky@gmail.com)

• Sergey Pchelincev (jalkoby91@gmail.com)

Homepage

github.com/jqr/typed_serialize

License

Copyright © 2008 Elijah Miller <elijah.miller@gmail.com>, released under the MIT license