getting active records to display as a plist
- by phil swenson
I'm trying to get a list of active record results to display as a plist for being consumed by the iphone. I'm using the plist gem v 3.0.
My model is called Post. And I want Post.all (or any array or Posts) to display correctly as a Plist.
I have it working fine for one Post instance:
[http://pastie.org/580902][1]
that is correct, what I would expect. To get that behavior I had to do this:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
def to_plist
attributes.to_plist
end
end
However, when I do a Post.all, I can't get it to display what I want. Here is what happens:
http://pastie.org/580909
I get marshalling. I want output more like this:
[http://pastie.org/580914][2]
I suppose I could just iterate the result set and append the plist strings. But seems ugly, I'm sure there is a more elegant way to do this.
I am rusty on Ruby right now, so the elegant way isn't obvious to me. Seems like I should be able to override ActiveRecord and make result-sets that pull back more than one record take the ActiveRecord::Base to_plist and make another to_plist implementation. In rails, this would go in environment.rb, right?
