Ar::Serialize::Helpers

Collection of helpers for ActiveRecord's serialize method in Rails >= 3.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ar-serialize-helpers'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ar-serialize-helpers

Supported serialization formats

* `ARSerializeHelpers::Gzip`, depends on the `activesupport` gem and a `binary` attribute for storage
* `ARSerializeHelpers::Integer`
* `ARSerializeHelpers::JSON`, depends on `JSON` being available

Usage

You need to require the individual helper classes you wish to use. You can either do this in an initializer

require "ar-serialize-helpers/json"

or in the Gemfile

gem "ar-serialize-helpers", :require => "ar-serialize-helpers/json"
# Or for multiple modules
gem "ar-serialize-helpers", :require => ["ar-serialize-helpers/json", "ar-serialize-helpers/integer"]

Then pass an instance of the class to the serialize call in the model definition

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  serialize :my_column, ARSerializeHelpers::JSON.new
end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

See LICENSE