Question

I have this json object (which i don’t really know what is inside) and I want to store it into a rails model with an openstruct attribute

so for example with jquery I send this json to the good url:

    Data = A_JSON_OBJECT_LIKE_CSV;
    myJSONData =  {"OpenStructObject":{"content":' + Data + '}}
    $.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url: 'http://localhost:3000/surveys/',
      dataType: 'json',
      data: myJSONData,
      success: alert('wow : success !')
    });                

So how should be written this Survey model ?
Maybe something like this :

class Survey < ActiveRecord::Base
  serialize :content, OpenStruct

  def initialize(idunno)
    @content = watever;
  end
end

I really don’t know except that It must be possible to do it !

Answer 1

Why do you need this to be converted into OpenStruct and save as yaml in db. Instead JSON converted to hash saved as yaml does the same thing without overhead of open struct.

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you already have solution in your code. look at this

class Survey < ActiveRecord::Base
  serialize :content, Hash

end

Here you are serializing content. right!! So it automatically converts assigned hash to yaml before saving. So here is some assignment

survey = Survey.new({:content => {:first => "any hash"}})
survey.save!

Now when you access it back again

survey.content
#=> {:first => "any hash"}

just simple as it is. You don’t have to worry about yaml conversion and back, Rails will take care of it.

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