Hi all,
I’ve got a c++ program that inserts data into a mysql database, its a
32 length varchar column in question that contains sha256 hashes such as
018cf0b47256973ab6f08a720208c28c34d85722
Unfortunately, when I come to read this in rails and print out the hash
in a
view, it prints out a short integer like 847.
I’ve tried it in irb, I can see the hash correctly as the return value
of a
.find, but it still comes out wrong when I print it directly:
=> @hash = FileHash.find(:first)
#<FileHash id: 423, hash: “018cf0b47256973ab6f08a720208c28c34d85722”, size: 1393>
=> @hash.size
1393
=> @hash.hash
847
I can’t think what would be causing this, I’ve never come across
anything
quite like this before. I’m not using any unusual encodings or anything,
at
least, I’m using the same a I always have without problems.
Hope someone can shed light on this.
Thanks
Matt
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:06:07AM +0000, Matt H. wrote:
I can’t think what would be causing this, I’ve never come across anything
quite like this before. I’m not using any unusual encodings or anything, at
least, I’m using the same a I always have without problems.
Hope someone can shed light on this.
Thanks
Matt
Well to answer my own question yet again:
It turns out that hash is a method defined by activerecord already. I
originally had problems naming my model Hash so I changed it to
FileHash. I
didn’t realise that hash was a method as well as a class.
Changing the column name in the db, rails and the c++ app has fixed the
problem 
Matt
On Nov 6, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Matt H. wrote:
Unfortunately, when I come to read this in rails and print out the
=> @hash.size
Hope someone can shed light on this.
didn’t realise that hash was a method as well as a class.
Changing the column name in the db, rails and the c++ app has fixed
the
problem 
Matt
You could have also accessed the original column as:
@hash[‘hash’]
which forces the name ‘hash’ to be treated as an attribute name of the
model.
FYI, you also run into the same kind of problem with other names that
conflict with exiting methods.
-Rob
Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]
On Nov 7, 12:21 am, Matt H. [email protected]
wrote:
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:06:07AM +0000, Matt H. wrote:
It turns out that hash is a method defined by activerecord already. I
originally had problems naming my model Hash so I changed it to FileHash. I
didn’t realise that hash was a method as well as a class.
Changing the column name in the db, rails and the c++ app has fixed the
problem
All objects in ruby have a hash method for which the following
statement should hold
a.hash != b.hash => a!=b
Among other things it is used when you use something as a key in a
Hash.
Fred