From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-09-21T07:44:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Store object in on disk / mini database

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 04:14 pm, Kristian S淡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!

But you still reparse the data, which the OP wanted to avoid.

James