From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T01:54:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Serializing an instance with arbitrary methods (in rails)

On Nov 17, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> Summary:
> I'm writing a rails app where I want to save information about a  
> user's session, so that they may return at a later date and pick up  
> where they left off. The information being saved is an object with  
> arbitrary instance variables. What's the best way (or any good way)  
> to save this? So far, the only thing I can think of is Marshal dump/ 
> load to a db row, but this seems off for some reason. Is this the  
> best way?

What's wrong with just sticking the object in the session?

James Edward Gray II