Ruby on Rails Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Im just looking to make my table as dry as possible, I suppose that
the best way would be to store these values columns since that is what
they are.

Thanks for the insight,
Devin Morin

On Feb 1, 12:42 am, "Robert Pankowecki (rupert)"
<robert.pankowe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with "normal" way and storing them as columns ? Why do
> you think this is wrong approach ?
>
> You can also look athttp://ar.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html
> and read "Saving arrays, hashes, and other non-mappable objects in
> text columns". Of course using :serialize greatly reduces your ability
> to easily perform SQL queries about stored values.
>
> Robert Pankoweckihttp://robert.pankowecki.pl

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