Chris Mear wrote: > On 17 August 2010 03:35, madisonkel <madisonkel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My question is what type do you give the variable :preferences for the >> migration? In: >> >> ruby script/generate migration _add_hash_column preferences:??? >> >> What is ??? -- text, string, something else? > > From the ActiveRecord docs: > > "Active Record can serialize any object in text columns using YAML" > > so the column type is just :text.
Right. Or :string...any field that can store text will work. But I'd worry more about why you're storing an array in the DB. There are some legitimate use cases for it, but usually it's a sign that you need to do some more normalization of your DB schema. > > Chris Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org Sent from my iPhone -- 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 post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
