Hello,
i have an array of strings in a database field. When the scaffold CREATE method inserts them into the database i have a number of hyphens in my data.
e.g -- - string1 - string2 - string3
has anybody else experienced this, or know how to prevent the hyphens appearing.
When you declare a serialized column with : serialize :foo
data in foo column is stored in YAML format (ie the same format as config/database.yml and fixtures).
Look how an array of strings appears in YAML format in irb :
$ irb irb(main):001:0> require 'yaml' => true irb(main):002:0> %w(un deux trois).to_yaml => "--- \n- un\n- deux\n- trois\n"
-- Jean-François.