Persisting matchups

app/models/tournament.rb

@@ -4,18 +4,19 @@ class Tournament < ActiveRecord::Base
 	has_many :matches, dependent: :destroy
 	has_many :mats, dependent: :destroy	
 	attr_accessor :upcomingMatches, :unfinishedMatches
+	serialize :matchups, Array
 
 	def unfinishedMatches
 		
 	end
 
 	def upcomingMatches
-		@matches = []
+		if self.matchups?
-		self.weights.sort_by{|x|[x.max]}.each do |weight|
+			return self.matchups
-	    	@upcomingMatches = weight.generateMatchups(@matches)
+		else
+			@upcomingMatches = generateMatchups
+		    return @upcomingMatches
 	    end
-	    @upcomingMatches = assignBouts(@upcomingMatches)
-	    return @upcomingMatches
 	end
 
 
@@ -26,7 +27,16 @@ class Tournament < ActiveRecord::Base
 	    end
 	end
 
-
+	def generateMatchups
+		@matches = []
+		self.weights.map.sort_by{|x|[x.max]}.each do |weight|
+    		@upcomingMatches = weight.generateMatchups(@matches)
+	    end
+	    @upcomingMatches = assignBouts(@upcomingMatches)
+	    self.matchups = @upcomingMatches
+	    self.save
+	    return @upcomingMatches
+	end
 
 	def assignBouts(matches)
 		@bouts = Bout.new

db/migrate/20150324233726_add_matchups_to_tournament.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+class AddMatchupsToTournament < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    add_column :tournaments, :matchups, :text
+  end
+end

db/schema.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20150317122709) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20150324233726) do
 
   create_table "matches", force: :cascade do |t|
     t.integer  "r_id"
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20150317122709) do
     t.string   "director_email"
     t.datetime "created_at"
     t.datetime "updated_at"
+    t.text     "matchups"
   end
 
   create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t|