[LRUG] Best way to serialise a Ruby object?

[Tatsuya Ono]

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On 14 July 2011 10:31, Olly Legg <ollylegg at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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?
>
>
> Rails uses YAML, so its probably not a bad bet.
>
> > 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.
>
> Rails used to use Marsahl.dump by default but, as far as I understand it,
> it's not guaranteed to be readable by future ruby versions. So when people
> upgraded Ruby they could no longer de-serialize the data they had already
> stored.
>
> This prompted switching the default to YAML. However this looks like it
> wasn't as foolproof as they intended.
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