Schemaless Attributes on an ActiveRecord model

Simple little ActiveRecord plugin which allows a subset of a models attributes to reside in a serialized column, while still working with form helpers and validators.

# Assuming a Email schema looks like
create_table "emails", :force => true do |t|
  t.string   "email"
  t.datetime "created_at"
  t.datetime "updated_at"
  t.text     "data"
end

# we can invoke the stash helper as follows
stash <fields..>, :in => <column to stash the fields into>

#full example
class Email < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :name, :phone, :email, :content

  stash :phone, :name, :content :in => :data
end

# validations, and form helpers now work on stashed attributes

Getting Started

#Gemfile
gem "active_record_stash"

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Schemaless Attributes on an ActiveRecord model

Getting Started

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

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