From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-03-11T05:46:46+09:00
Subject: Re: saving array

Phidippus wrote:
> After I do bunch of computations and create a huge array with bunch of
> numbers, I like to use the already-computed array in another program
> rather than re-computing it each time I run the program. How can I
> save the array object in one program and read it from another program
> in ruby?

You can use marshalling:

array = ...
File.open("array", "wb") do |f|
   Marshal.dump(array, f)
end


To reload:

array = nil
File.open("array", "r") do |f|
   array = Marshal.load(f)
end