On Friday, 31 August 2012 01:42:10 UTC-5, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm new to rails and am trying to tackle a problem that I can't seem to > find the right solution for. > > 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. > > Can you please let me know how I can achieve this within rails? >
I don't quite understand exactly what you mean but it sounds to me like you want a custom serializer. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4472479/custom-serialization-for-fields-in-rails -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/6lDoxISEdbUJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.