Segment

Segment original implementation. Provides an easy interface to manipulate, save and restore, segment-like values from the database. Works very similar to the ActiveRecord::Point, but for a list of 2 values of them (stored as x1, y1, x2, y2). PostgreSQL Docs

The biggest difference between this and a line is that its composition is based on two points.

How it works

Migration

Just set the type of the column as segment when creating a table.

create_table "Hit" do |t|
  t.string  "source", null: false
  t.segment "trajectory"
end

Using it

The column is automatically identified and its value turned into what is defined in geometry.segment_class or into a Torque::PostgreSQL::Segment.

This original implementation provides a couple of methods:

hit = Hit.new
hit.trajectory.x1
hit.trajectory.y1
hit.trajectory.x2
hit.trajectory.y2

The value can be set in some different manners:

hit.trajectory = '3,2,15,10'
hit.trajectory = '[3,2],[15,10]'
hit.trajectory = '((3,2),(15,10))'
hit.trajectory = [3,2,15,10]
hit.trajectory = [[3,2],[15,10]]
hit.trajectory = { x1: 3, y1: 2, x2: 15, y2: 10 }