From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-06-07T23:49:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Custom marshalling with YAML

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:06:53PM +0900, Anders Bengtsson wrote:
>  --- Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> wrote:
> > How about this:
> > 
> >   module Kernel
> >     def to_yaml
> >       if respond_to? :_dump
> >         _dump(nil).to_yaml    # TODO: _dump takes one paramter
> >       else
> >         raise 
> >       end
> >     end
> >   end
> 
> That would be a nice solution. But the string returned by _dump
> probably won't be valid YAML.
> 
> If I have the following class
> 
> class Foo
>   def _dump(x)
>     "foo"
>   end
> 
>   def to_yaml
>     _dump
>   end
> end

Take a look at lib/yaml/rubytypes.rb.

There's a to_yaml_type and a YAML.add_ruby_type method. 
Maybe this is a start.

Regards,

  Michael