From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T11:41:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal vs. YAML vs. something else (Re: Most popular wiki in Ruby seeks kind maintainer)

Hello Francis,

FH> More generally, let me ask: What formats are people using to persist
FH> Ruby objects to disk? What are pluses and minuses? I can't figure out
FH> when I should use something like YAML and when I should use the Marshal
FH> module and if there's anything else out there that people are using,
FH> I'm probably going to get sort of confused but should probably hear
FH> about them anyway.

If you want a readable object file that can edited by a human
(configuration file) use YAML otherwise use Marshal.

You can read YAML file also with Python, Perl und PHP applications

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