Question

I have my Profile Migration like this :

class CreateProfiles < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :profiles do |t|
      t.integer :user_id
      t.text :detail
      t.boolean :visible
      t.timestamps
      end
    add_index :profiles, :detail
  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :profiles
  end
end

And I have a User has_one Profile and Profile belongs_to User Relation.

Now, I want to store the Profile details as serialized. So I have the Profile class like this :

class Profile < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  serialize :detail, Hash
end

This is because I want each user to be able to create different profile details, something like this

Profile.new.detail ={:education => ["Degree", true], :Hobby => ["Music", false] }

Now, since I have user_id has the other attribute, what command can I use for users to add new details ?

Answer 1

For Profile has_many Details:

p = Profile.new
p.detail = []
p.detail << {:'Linked In Profile' => ["link", false]}
p.detail << {education: [...]}

For Profile has_one Detail:

Profile.new.detail = { :Education => ["Degree", true], :'Linked In Profile' => ["link", false] }