How to edit a Rails serialized field in a form?

Question

I have a data model in my Rails project that has a serialized field:

class Widget < ActiveRecord::Base
  serialize :options
end

The opti

Answer 1

I will suggest something simple, because all the time, when user will save form You will get string. So You can use for example before filter and parse those data like that:

before_save do
  widget.options = YAML.parse(widget.options).to_ruby
end 

of course You should add validation if this is correct YAML. But it should works.