1. Serialize out of the
Cerealize Box
a drop-in replacement for ActiveRecord's serialize
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2. class Cat < ActiveRecord::Base
serialize :can, Hash
end
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3. Cat.create(:can =>
{:food => ‘fish’,
:mood => ‘dish’})
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4. YAML
is a human friendly
data serialization
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5. YAML
is not a machine friendly
data serialization
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6. YAML
SLOW for machine
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7. to the rescue
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8. class Cat < ActiveRecord::Base
serialize :can, Hash
end
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9. class Cat < ActiveRecord::Base
include Cerealize
serialize :can, Hash
end
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10. class Cat < ActiveRecord::Base
include Cerealize
cerealize :can, Hash
end
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12. SAVED!!
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13. YAML
Marshal Encoding JSON
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14. AUTO detection
YAML
Encoding
Marshal
JSON
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15. AUTO detection
YAML
Encoding
Marshal
JSON
conversion
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16. class Cat < ActiveRecord::Base
include Cerealize
cerealize :can, Hash,
:encoding => :marshal
end
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17. class Cat < ActiveRecord::Base
include Cerealize
cerealize :can, Hash,
:encoding => :yaml
end
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18. class Cat < ActiveRecord::Base
include Cerealize
cerealize :can, Hash,
:encoding => :json #future
end
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19. Try it Today!
gem install cerealize
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20. Try it Today!
script/plugin install
git://github.com/cardinalblue/cerealize.git
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21. Contribution
WANTED!!
http://github.com/cardinalblue/cerealize
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