From ddf829e017e2fb37cfb9f975e69d73f27a5528d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Saverio Miroddi Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:45:30 +0100 Subject: Add MySQL JSON reference to ActiveRecord::Store documentation The current documentation explicitly mentions only PostgreSQL (hstore/json) for use with `.store_accessor`, making it somewhat confusing what to choose on a MySQL 5.7+ setup (which introduced a json data type). --- activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'activerecord') diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb index 6dbc977f9a..3290675338 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/store.rb @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ module ActiveRecord # 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+. # - # NOTE: If you are using PostgreSQL specific columns like +hstore+ or +json+ there is no need for - # the serialization provided by {.store}[rdoc-ref:rdoc-ref:ClassMethods#store]. + # NOTE: If you are using structured database data types (eg. PostgreSQL +hstore+/+json+, or MySQL 5.7+ + # +json+) there is no need for the serialization provided by {.store}[rdoc-ref:rdoc-ref:ClassMethods#store]. # Simply use {.store_accessor}[rdoc-ref:ClassMethods#store_accessor] instead to generate # the accessor methods. Be aware that these columns use a string keyed hash and do not allow access # using a symbol. -- cgit v1.2.3