I don't understand the following example from the ActiveRecord::Base section in http://api.rubyonrails.org/ :
====== class User < ActiveRecord::Base serialize :preferences, Hash end user = User.create(preferences: %w( one two three )) User.find(user.id).preferences # raises SerializationTypeMismatch ====== What was the design choice, that I get the exception in the *last* line? I could understand, if there is an exception in User.create, because :preferences is supposed to be a Hash (if I understood correctly the 'serialize' function), and instead an Array is passed. But the documentation clearly says that the exception happens at retrieval: ====== You can also specify a class option as the second parameter that'll raise an exception if a serialized object is retrieved as a descendant of a class not in the hierarchy. ====== Is there a deeper reason, why this error is caught at retrieval, and not already at the time of storing the value? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/7e006639e4c9ebde871d76fe63d3b1c1%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
