From: Toby Rodwell <ruby@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T01:30:22+09:00
Subject: Importing from YAML

I've learned that a very quick and easy way to save a Ruby object to a 
file is to use YAML e.g.

	def saveMyObject
		File.open(self.fileName,"a+") { |f|
			f.write(self.to_yaml)
			f.close
		}
	end

However, the article which showed this did not then explain how this 
process could be reversed.  I assume there must be a an equivalent 
simple use of file 'read', but a straight forward 'read' seems to give 
just a string, and I can find no 'from_yaml' method whihc would read 
YAML-formatted text straight into a Ruby object (and thus re-create that 
object originally used to create the YAML file) .  I'm sure there must 
be a quick and easy way to do this - any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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