From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T08:26:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Style question - how to represent properties

Graham Foster wrote:

>>I'm currently writing Ruby bindings for libeet, which serializes C
>>structs to disk.
> 
> I'm looking to write at utility which would write data records out to 
> a fixed sized structure ("database" records for an MP3 player). I was 
> just wondering if you can use something like Ruby (where types don't 
> seemed to have a clearly defined size), when I need to serialise 
> exact sizes of items and byte order is import. Would your binding 
> help in this regard? (I'm a newbie - and this looked like a Ruby 
> utility I could get my teeth into.)
> If not - any other suggestions?

Is this not what Array#pack and String#unpack do?