# Weirdness when save symbols to AR string fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weirdness-when-save-symbols-to-ar-string-fields/7527>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [January 21, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weirdness-when-save-symbols-to-ar-string-fields/7527 "2007-01-21T07:34:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rick\_Olson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rick\_Olson](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Rick_Olson)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/weirdness-when-save-symbols-to-ar-string-fields/7527/1 "2007-01-21T07:34:43Z")

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Yea, it serializes non-db fields to yaml. Use the serialize method to unserialize it for you.

[http://rails.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M001004](http://rails.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M001004)