From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T20:25:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Perl Dumper equivalent

Matt Armstrong wrote:

>David Corbin <dcorbin@imperitek.com> writes:
>
>>Is there an equivalent to Perl's module that dumps out *any* object in
>>a ruby-compilable format?
>>
>
>See the Marshal module for converting objects to and from a string or
>IO object (but unlike perl's Data::Dumper, the output isn't human
>readable).
>
>See PStore for a convenient way to use Marshal.
>
>Both come with Ruby.
>
I'm familiar with marshal.  I failed to mention it, but I want something 
that is human readable too.  Maybe I'll look at one of the XML marshalers...