From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-07-26T06:57:32+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML Broken?

David Pollak wrote:
> Folks,
>
> It seems that when I YAML.dump arrays that contain long strings that
> contain non-printables and sometimes UTF-8 sequences, the YAML'ed
> objects can't be read back in.  Is this a known issue?  If so, is
> there a known work-around?  Alternatively, are there any other ways to
> serialize objects (JSON doesn't work because eval() barfs on very long
> strings)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
There's always Marshal.

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

-Justin