In MyOwnDB , there's an CrosstabObject inheriting from ActiveRecord, but that doesn't correspond to any table in the database (actually, it is configured to map to a table in the database as this is mandated by AR, but it's never used like that). It is only used to select data with find_by_sql.
Now, some columns of the data returned by the query can be data that has been serialized to YAML, but each query has its own set of serialized columns.
I first tried to call the serialize method provided by rails, but it didn't work. I suspect the ActiveRecord model needs the column to exist when it is initialized for the serialization to be activated, which is not the case here as the CrosstabObject is mapped to an object that doesn't have the columns returned by the sql query.
In this example, the query returns a result set which has the test_attach column serialized to YAML. test_attach is not a column of the table to which CrosstabObject was mapped. As you can see, the serialization is configured, but has no effect on the returned data:
If I redefine the test_attach accessor on list[6] 's singleton class, I get the expected result though:
As each query has its own set of serialized columns, what I want to do is just pass the list of columns that contain serialized data, so that the accessors get defined, which is easily done by adding a method to CrosstabObject:
which enables me to easily configure the columns returned by the sql query that are serialized:
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