From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2013-02-01T19:19:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Ruby has any default database with it?

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> If it's just 30,000 items then Marshal or PStore might do as well
>
> Note PStore really sucks because it rewrites the entire database every
> single time you mutate it. It's about the most brain dead persistence model
> ever.

It's a tool.  There are use cases where it's appropriate and others
where it's not.  That has nothing to do with "brain dead".  The
approach to serialize objects is actually quite common in various
programming languages.

Cheers

robert

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