Question

I have an options column which is serialized. I plan to store user preferences in it, but I can’t find any detailed writing covering this from form building to controller/model changes. I am wondering if there is a known pattern for this, or is there a gem covering this scenario?

Answer 1

I use has_serialized gem at the end. Basically after specifying each of the field within the serialized one, you can access each of these as a native attribute.

class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_serialized :options,
    :notification_comment => false,
    :notification_message => false,

This way I can easily use it with form builder.