From: Alder Green <alder.green@...>
Date: 2006-03-21T23:53:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Why's Poignants guide code..help

The guide is cute, but I wouldn't recommend it as an actual tutorial.
Try Chris Pine's tut, or better yet the pickaxe2.

There are a lot of ways to store structured data in Ruby. The most
common way in real world usage is plaintext mark format, like Yaml.
Google Yaml and read about it (somewhat like XML, only usually nicer
but less powerful).

The other common way is Marshal:

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Marshal.html

which makes sense sometimes.

On 3/21/06, James Whittaker <jmwhittaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alder Green wrote:
> > Any Python experience by any chance? :)
> >
> > In wordlist.rb you create a *local variable* code_words. When you
> > require wordlist.rb, locals variable get created, then destroyed. Only
> > constants (classes, modules) survive. So you can either store that
> > hash as a constant (inside a module/class), or (cleaner, more
> > sensible) store it in some sort of serial representation format, e.g.
> > Yaml.
> >
> > Alder Green
>
> Thanks, but no no Python experience!
>
> Bit of a flaw in the book then at only chapter 4!! If the code does not
> work as described.
>
> It seems quite sensible what i'm trying to do, don't quite understand
> your YAML format, but basically how can I store variables, hashes etc in
> an external file then call them.
>
> This book has been praised but has anyone really tried the code?
>
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