From: Kirk Haines <wyhaines@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T08:59:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Advice on ASCII representation of objects for testing using string compares?

Jonathan Kohl wrote:

> I've written a quick test that checks an input file for an application.
> I have a "known good" baseline file, and I want to check the new file
> against this. I attempted to serialize each conf file into objects to
> do string compares. If the strings are not equal, then we need to check
> the file for changes. If they are equal, the input file hasn't changed.

This sounds like a job for YAML.

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require 'yaml'

a = {1,2,3,4,5,6}
b = {1,2,3,4,5,6}
aa = a.to_yaml
bb = b.to_yaml
puts "match" if aa == bb
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Kirk Haines