marten / has_details
has_details
Public(Deprecated) HasDetails is a Rails plugin to allow you to serialize an arbitrary amount of (optional) attributes into a column.
README
= HasDetails
This plugin is no longer maintained, and probably doesn't work with Rails 3. Additionally, with Rails 3.2 it introduces the ActiveRecord store, which does pretty much what this plugin once did. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/12/20/rails-3-2-rc1-faster-dev-mode-routing-explain-queries-tagged-logger-store
HasDetails allows you to store a large amount of (optional) attributes for any model's instance in a serialized column. It takes care of adding convenience methods to your model, and verifies that the value being assigned is indeed (one of) the type(s) required for that attribute.
= Example
class User << ActiveRecord::Base has_details :firstname => String, :lastname => String, :birthday => Date, :gender => [:male, :female] end
john = User.find(1) john.birthday = 5.years.ago john.gender => :male
Copyright (c) 2008 Marten Veldthuis, released under the MIT license