Custom coders support for ActiveRecord::Store. JSON, YAML, Marshal can be used out of the box.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb
index 1c7b839e5e..a67d6a2288 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb
@@ -10,15 +10,20 @@ module ActiveRecord
   # Make sure that you declare the database column used for the serialized store as a text, so there's
   # plenty of room.
   #
+  # You can set custom coder to encode/decode your serialized attributes to/from different formats.
+  # JSON, YAML, Marshal are supported out of the box. Generally it can be any wrapper that provides +load+ and +dump+.
+  #
   # Examples:
   #
   #   class User < ActiveRecord::Base
-  #     store :settings, accessors: [ :color, :homepage ]
+  #     store :settings, accessors: [ :color, :homepage ], coder: JSON
   #   end
   #
   #   u = User.new(color: 'black', homepage: '37signals.com')
   #   u.color                          # Accessor stored attribute
-  #   u.settings[:country] = 'Denmark' # Any attribute, even if not specified with an accessor
+  #   u.settings['country'] = 'Denmark' # Any attribute, even if not specified with an accessor
+  #   String keys should be used for direct access to virtual attributes because of most of the coders do not
+  #   distinguish symbols and strings as keys.
   #
   #   # Add additional accessors to an existing store through store_accessor
   #   class SuperUser < User
@@ -29,7 +34,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
 
     module ClassMethods
       def store(store_attribute, options = {})
-        serialize store_attribute, Hash
+        serialize store_attribute, options.fetch(:coder, Hash)
         store_accessor(store_attribute, options[:accessors]) if options.has_key? :accessors
       end
 
@@ -37,13 +42,13 @@ module ActiveRecord
         keys.flatten.each do |key|
           define_method("#{key}=") do |value|
             send("#{store_attribute}=", {}) unless send(store_attribute).is_a?(Hash)
-            send(store_attribute)[key] = value
+            send(store_attribute)[key.to_s] = value
             send("#{store_attribute}_will_change!")
           end
 
           define_method(key) do
             send("#{store_attribute}=", {}) unless send(store_attribute).is_a?(Hash)
-            send(store_attribute)[key]
+            send(store_attribute)[key.to_s]
           end
         end
       end