How to overcome an apparent REST vs. DRY dilemma in rails?

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A rails app I'm working on features examples of quadratic equations. Obviously, these are all of a common structure: ax^2 + bx + c = 0.

I don't want to store every single example of these. I'd rather generate them from a template. Storing hundreds of possible versions of this structure seems highly wasteful and un-DRY.

On the other hand, if I generate them, I can't access them again reliably as I could if they were simply multiple database objects.

I'm sure there must be a way to overcome this, but I'm still learning rails and I'm obviously not grasping something here. Thanks.

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