From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T02:34:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Shelve module in Ruby?

On Dec 20, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Bryan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new to Ruby and I was wondering if there was a module that
> functions similarly to the shelve module in Python.
>
> The shelve module is a method for packaging a dictionary (hash) of
> arbritrary objects into a file.  I use it as a rudimentary database so
> that I don't have to rebuild objects from text files over and over.
>
> If anyone knows of a module in Ruby that could accomplish this, or a
> suggestion on how to do this, any help would be appreciated.

Ruby comes with Marshal and YAML, which sounds like what you are  
looking for.  Also see PStore, for transactional file storage.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II