From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-05-18T14:01:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple Select Dropdown and Storing Problem

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:30:03AM +0900, Jim wrote:
> So if I select Car Insurance, Home Insurance and Technology and
> submit
> it this is what gets written to the DB. Exactly as shown below.
> 
> 
> --- - "1808" - "1809" - "1810"

That looks like YAML, but with some of the whitespace trimmed out.

irb(main):001:0> require 'yaml'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> YAML.load(%{--- - "1808" - "1809" - "1810"})
ArgumentError: syntax error on line 0, col 13: `--- - "1808" - "1809" - "1810"'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from (irb):2
irb(main):003:0> YAML.load(%{---\n  - "1808"\n  - "1809"\n  - "1810"})
=> ["1808", "1809", "1810"]

Note that what you're trying to do is to put a quart into a pint pot - i.e.
write a ruby Array into a single field in the database.