From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2008-09-06T06:00:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How to save Ruby object as a blob in MySQL


On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Bryan Richardson wrote:

> Ah... interesting.  Thanks!  I assume I have to Base64.decode the data
> before using Marshal to load it back into an object... correct?

Yeah exactly, use helper methods like this:


     def marshal(string)
       [Marshal.dump(string)].pack('m*')
     end

     def unmarshal(str)
       Marshal.load(str.unpack("m")[0])
     end

Cheers-
-Ezra