From: Craig Johnson <cjsiam@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T11:22:00+09:00
Subject: Web Databases and Objects

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OK..I'm having a mental block.

 

I have a website started with Ruby on Rails.

I've got this object Hierarchy in mind.

 

 the simple "it's a database" stuff is fine.but when it comes to the Arrays
of Hashes that make

  up some of the objects within the custom class.the relationship to the
database and what happens when

  I close down the environment (and in future want to start up site.)

 

So how do I Save and retrieve that stuff? do I have to do the
Object/Relational mapping myself or 

  do I depend on the "serialize" function/method for the class?

 

the examples I've seen don't have a user create and populate a complex
object and then

save and retrieve it...things that are saved and retrieved seem pretty
simple---though there

are lots of instantiations and work live---but I need to create a datastore
that gets extended and 

hit with queries---Am I going to have to recreate and repopulate via
"deserialize" ?

 

I imagine the answer is obvious---but it eludes my feeble mind..

Help?

 

cj:-)

 

 

 

 


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