From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-11-02T13:01:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Use yaml to store Ruby arrays or hashes in the DB?

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:

> On Monday 01 November 2004 10:20 pm, James Britt wrote:
> |
> | How can you store Ruby-specific objects (i.e., custom, user-defined
> | classes) in a language-neutral way?
> 
> You use YAML. 
> 
> No really. That's all there it to it. 

The ri data files for 1.8.2 are in YAML.  Can I load the following into 
a YAML parser in, say, perl or python?  How does that language make 
sense of it?

--- !ruby/object:RI::MethodDescription
aliases: []
block_params:
comment:
   - !ruby/struct:SM::Flow::P
     body: "Exclusive Or---If <em>obj</em> is <tt>nil</tt> or 
<tt>false</tt>, returns <tt>false</tt>; otherwise, returns <tt>true</tt>."
full_name: FalseClass#^
is_singleton: false
name: "^"
params: >
   false ^ obj    => true or false

   nil   ^ obj    => true or false


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