From: Shugo Maeda <shugo@...>
Date: 1999-07-15T09:40:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00497] Re: serialization of objects?

Hi,

At Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:12:03 -0600 (MDT),
Michael Hohn <hohn@math.utah.edu> wrote:
> I've noticed the Object.to_s method to get a string from an Object.
> Is there a simple way to restore an entire object hierarchy from a
> string?  For example, given a (non-cyclic) graph structure f,

You can use Marshal module.

>    print file, "%s", f.to_s
     Marshal::dump(f, file)

>    f.from_string_stream file
     f = Marshal::load(f)

For more information, see:

  http://hoyogw.netlab.co.jp/ruby/man-1.3/Marshal.html

Shugo