Can I give column type as string for serializing as Array in Rails?

Question

I have a model

class News < ActiveRecord::Base
  serialize :types, Array
end

My Migration is

create_table "news"  do |t|
   t.string     "types"
end

Usually we are giving

t.text  "types"

But here only 3 types are there. So I need mysql to be allocated small space for types. So can I give

t.string     "types"

or some limit for an array serialize ?

Have a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3565557/rails-serialize-value-as-comma-seperated-and-not-as-yaml — vee, Dec 24 '13 at 07:28

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '13 at 07:56

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To a first order, based on some limited tests, yes, you can use string instead of text as a schema type for serialized attributes.

answered Dec 24 '13 at 07:56

Peter Alfvin

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