Serialize with Coder

serialize_with_coder is an ActiveRecord 2.x extended serialize function which acts like Rails 3.1 one - you can use custom coder as storing engine.

Including 2 sample coders:

CSV, SerializeWithCoder::CSVCoder
JSON, SerializeWithCoder::JSONCoder

Example

require 'coders/csv_coder'
require 'coders/json_coder'

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  serialize_with_coder :newsletters, SerializeWithCoder::CSVCoder.new
  serialize_with_coder :notes,       SerializeWithCoder::JSONCoder.new

end

Example coder

class JSONCoder
  def load(data)
    JSON.parse(data) rescue nil
  end

  def dump(obj)
    obj.to_json rescue nil
  end
end

Installation

gem install serialize_with_coder

Note

Please open an issue at http://github.com/maltize/serialize_with_coder if you discover a problem.