ar_fixtures - great stuff, when it works

Posted by admin, Thu Mar 02 07:20:39 UTC 2006



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And one more problem with ar_fixtures. We were using it to dump data out of an Oracle test database, to transfer to MySQL. Two of the columns failed to “dump” properly. A column defined in Oracle as “NUMBER” failed to export. As did another column defined as “NUMBER”. Instead of the numeric data expected, we got a bunch of : !ruby/object{}

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  1. Jeremy 08.05.06 / 06AM
    (Rails 1.2 transparently supports numeric/decimal columns.)

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