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Qwertie
Qwertie

Reputation: 6573

Converting comma separated string into array for postgres in rails gives unexpected results

I have a text field in a form for adding tags to a category. I want the input to be a comma separated string like some,test,tags and have it save that as an array in posgresSQL. My tags column was created with t.string "tags", array: true.

In my controller I have 

category_params[:tags].split(',')
@category = Category.create(category_params)

But when I enter some,test,tags it shows up in the database as ["ome", "test"] What have I done wrong here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 802

Answers (1)

Qwertie
Qwertie

Reputation: 6573

Got it working with 

tags = category_params[:tags].split(',')
Category.create(category_params.merge({tags:tags}))

Upvotes: 2

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