[LRUG] Best way to serialise a Ruby object?

[Riccardo Tacconi]

Hi,

I do not know if you use Ruby or Rails, but for instance ActiveRecord uses
serialize method, which is YAML stored in  the DB:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  serialize :preferences
end



On 14 July 2011 11:19, Jonathan del Strother <maillist at steelskies.com>wrote:

> Marshal.dump would be the obvious choice.  Just make sure you're
> either storing it as binary or converting to base64 first, to avoid
> interesting encoding/decoding problems in mysql.
>
> On 14 July 2011 10:11, Andrew Stewart <boss at airbladesoftware.com> wrote:
> > Hola El Rug,
> >
> > What's the best way these days to serialise a Ruby object for storage in
> a SQL database field, and de-serialise it back again?
> >
> > To date I've been using YAML but I've run across a situation where the
> YAML written by Ruby can't be de-serialised again (due, I think, to Sych
> versus Psych).
> >
> > Should I be switching to something other than YAML?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy Stewart
> >
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