From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T09:24:57+09:00
Subject: Re: DRbUndumped and Marshal

On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:

> I'm using DRb with quite a few objects marked as DRbUndumped.  Some  
> of these
> objects also need to persist to disk, which I was using Marshal to  
> do before
> I introduced the DRb chunk and it worked just fine.  Now, of  
> course, I get an
> error when I try to Marshal anything, so I was using YAML.  Which  
> works great
> but is slow.
>
> The files do not need to be human readable, so is there any way to  
> either
> uninclude DRbUndumped or allow Marshall to temporarily bypass  
> DRbUndumped so
> I can have the speed of Marshal?

Instead of using DRbUndumped, you can wrap the object to send:

obj_to_share = DRbObject.new( my_object )  # will be shared by proxy

Since you didn't modify the class, I'm *assuming* it would Marshal  
(untested).

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II