From: Kevin Brown <blargity@...>
Date: 2005-11-18T02:37:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Serializing an instance with arbitrary methods (in rails)

On Thursday 17 November 2005 11:22, Kirk Haines wrote:
> Use Marshal for this.  YAML offers similar capabilities, but it is MUCH
> slower, doesn't handle circular references and such as well, and
> historically has had bizarre corner cases pop up that broke it.  It may be
> that those corner cases are all resolved, but unless you need a human
> readable serialization format, use Marshal.

Or unless you're also using DRb on the same objects and need to have them 
DRbUndumped.