From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-11-02T12:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Use yaml to store Ruby arrays or hashes in the DB?

George Moschovitis wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> the current version of NDB stores Array/Hash/GeneralRubyObjects using
> the Marshal.dump/load methods. This is relatively fast but not portable.
> Ie it is difficult to use the database from an application coded in
> another language due to Marshal being Ruby specific.
> 
> I could use yaml of course but I am wondering if this is fast enough.

How can you store Ruby-specific objects (i.e., custom, user-defined 
classes) in a language-neutral way?



James