From: "trans. (T. Onoma)" Date: 2004-09-21T05:37:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Store object in on disk / mini database On Monday 20 September 2004 04:14 pm, Kristian Sę·”rensen wrote: > Thanks for both your suggestions! That was just what I needed! :-) There's also YAML. require 'yaml' # save open('myapp.dat', 'w') {|fh| fh << data.to_yaml } # retrieve data = YAML.load(File.open('myapp.dat')) [Note: This is off th top of my head, so it's untested. But basically like that.] Nice thing about YAML is that the file it creates is human readable and editable! T.