Re: [Rails] Is there a way to skip serialization in Rails 3.1?

On Feb 15, 2012, at 2:15 AM, J. Pablo Fernández wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In my Rails 3.1 application, I need to read the raw data of a field, without serialization, and then write it down without serialization. Is this possible? How?
>
> By serialization I mean
>
> class Tenant
> serialize :profile_template
> end
>
> which I can access like this:
>
> > t.profile_template
> => [{:title=>"Page 1", ....}]
>
> I tried several approaches, none of them worked. With read_attribute_before_type_cast:
>
> > t.read_attribute_before_type_cast(:profile_template)
> => nil
>
> Using a string instead of a symbol had a different but disappointing result:
>
> > t.read_attribute_before_type_cast("profile_template")
> => [{:title=>"Page 1", ...}]
>
> and same with the attribute name:
>
> > t.profile_template_before_type_cast
> => [{:title=>"Page 1", ...}]
>
> Just for the record, what I was expecting is:
>
> "---
> - :title: Page 1
> ...."
>
> In all samples, ... is the rest of a very long structure.

This is messy, but works...

t.class.serialized_attributes['profile_template'].dump(t.profile_template)

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