From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-28T00:49:26+09:00
Subject: Re: save object reference in db?

2008/10/27 Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2008/10/27 Jamal Soueidan <jamal@soueidan.com>:
>>> I want to ask if it's possible to save object reference in database for
>>> later use?
>>
>> No, not directly.  How should that work?
>
> Well, technically it *is* possible to save object references - see
> weakref.rb for an implementation.

Hey, normally *I* am supposed to be the nitpick!  What's the point in
storing something that you cannot reasonably retrieve?  This is only
useful for a WOM. *gg*

> But this is almost certainly not what the OP wants (since those object
> references won't survive garbage collection, or application restart)

Exactly!

Kind regards

robert


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