From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-10-07T02:15:42+09:00
Subject: active record question

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Sorry guys, I try and keep these sorts of questions to the Rails list but
I've had little luck over there.  Since this is a Ruby / Active Record
question I thought I'd throw it out here.
Apologies if it's not appropriate.

Basically I have a form for the user to fill in.  Within it are various
select lists and those are set to multiple, so user can make multiple
choices.
I seem to be able to get them into the database using serialize() , but
integers appear particularly funky with lots of hyphens and quotes.  As well
these values will be needed for queries and my understanding is that
serialize is not the way to go.

So I wouldn't mind some recommendations regarding options I might have to
accomplish this feat, not including (more tables, if that's possible).
My initial thoughts and I haven't tried it yet is perhaps using some type of
regex to clean them up marshalling out , but not entirely sure if that makes
sense.

TIA
Stuart

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