From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-01-22T09:33:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Q: do i need PStore for this or something else ?

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 03:24 pm, Dmitri Colebatch wrote:
>
> http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/ says:
>
> 	Man 1: What's Yaml?
> 	Man 2: It's for writing data structures in plain text.
>
> haven't read far, but does this store binary data (photos) in base64 or
> something?

Yep.  Here's an example of an image stored in a Hash:

     base64: !binary |
       R0lGODlhDAAMAIQAAP//9/X17unp5WZmZgAAAOfn515eXvPz7Y6OjuDg4J+fn5
       OTk6enp56enmlpaWNjY6Ojo4SEhP/++f/++f/++f/++f/++f/++f/++f/++f/+
       +f/++f/++f/++f/++f/++SH+Dk1hZGUgd2l0aCBHSU1QACwAAAAADAAMAAAFLC
       AgjoEwnuNAFOhpEMTRiggcz4BNJHrv/zCFcLiwMWYNG84BwwEeECcgggoBADs=
     description: >
      The binary value above is a tiny arrow
      encoded as a gif image.

The `!binary' typing instructs the YAML loader to load the base64 data as a 
binary string.

If I were you, I'd use the YAML document to store metadata and keep your 
images in a directory where filenames are recognizable based on the metadata.

Good luck.

_why