From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-09-21T04:16:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Store object in on disk / mini database

Kristian,

If you're working with small datasets, you can use the built-in
'Marshal' module to persist data.

For example, if the variable 'data' contains your hash to be saved,
you can just do the following:

--
open('myapp.dat', 'wb') do |fh|
  Marshal.dump(data, fh)
end
--

To load your data later, you can use 'Marshal.load', which will
restore an object from either an open filehandle or a string. If you
need transactions, take a look at the 'PStore' library, which is part
of the standard distribution; it wraps a convenient database-like
interface on top of the Marshal methods, complete with transactional
access.

If you don't want to keep everything in RAM, there are also DBM, GDBM,
and SDBM bindings in the standard distribution.

-- 
Lennon
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