From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-04-05T00:16:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any standard package to dump to ruby data structures

adm wrote:
> On Apr 4, 4:24 pm, Jano Svitok <jan.svi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:10 PM, adm <avinash.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there any standard package to dump ruby data structures into a
>>>  string/stream? which can be eval'd back in ruby script. something like
>>>  perl's Data::Dumper?
>> Marshal - faster; shorter binary data
Ruby-specific format
>> YAML - slower, human readable/editable data
Language-independent format