Ruby on Rails

Michael Pavling wrote in post #1074016:
> On 31 August 2012 07:41, Joshua Baldock <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> I have an existing database that im building a rails app on top of. One
>> of my columns 'message' is a long string that I would like to be able to
>> query and split into various attributes to then be able to display each
>> of those attributes in a view.
>>
>> I'm trying to implement this into the controller, but don't seem to be
>> getting any where.
>
> Which bit are you having trouble with? Accessing the legacy table?
> Splitting the string? Displaying it in a view?

Splitting the string and then storing them as additional attributes to
the instance variable that contains the rest of the selected table
values.

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