From: tamc2@... (Tom Counsell)
Date: 2004-09-21T21:34:41+09:00
Subject: Marshalling objects that include 'Singleton'

Hello

Can someone help me?  I'm trying to Marshal a class that includes
'Singleton' but all I get upon loading is an empty object.

e.g:
require 'singleton'
class SingleHash < Hash
include Singleton
end

o = SingleHash.instance
o[1] = 'hello world'

# Save the object to file
File.open( 'test', 'w' ) { |file| Marshal::dump( o, file ) }

# Leave
quit

# Restart ruby
# Redefine SingleHash class
o = nil
o = File.open( 'test' ) { |file| o = Marshal::load( file ) }
puts o[1] #=> nil ? Why didn't the contents get written to the file?

Apologies if it is obvious, but why didn't the contents of the class
get written to / reloaded from the file?  Is there any way to make
this work?

Many thanks

Tom