SerializedAttrAccessors

Do NOT use this: Tweaked to get working in Rails 4.2, but Rails5 will REMOVE sattr_accessor

This gem extends ActiveRecord to consolidate multiple sattr_accessor values to a single RDB column.

...let's be honest though, this is a #reallybadidea. It prevents using SQL WHERE to filter data & confuses most (ALL) analysis & ML-from-RDBBMS packages. The ONLY reasons to use this gem are if your host charges per-column (it wastes storage GB, BTW), or you really like the idea of Doc DB's but really want to run MySQL anyway...

Setup: (just don't...)

1. bundle install "SerializedAttrAccessors"
2. Add a migration for the targeted model, with a TEXT column named serialized_options
3. Use like attr_accessor in ActiveRecord models:

sattr_accessor :name, :string, "some name" sattr_accessor :roll_no, :integer, 111 sattr_accessor :is_admin, :boolean, true sattr_accessor :second_name, "kumar" sattr_accessor :address

To use a different column name than serialized_options:

   for_serialized_field :workspaces do
       sattr_accessor :name, :string, "some name"
       sattr_accessor :roll_no, :integer, 111
       sattr_accessor :is_admin, :boolean, true
       sattr_accessor :second_name, "kumar"
       sattr_accessor :address
   end