Hi,<br><br>I do not know if you use Ruby or Rails, but for instance ActiveRecord uses serialize method, which is YAML stored in the DB:<br><br><pre>class User < ActiveRecord::Base
serialize :preferences
end</pre><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 July 2011 11:19, Jonathan del Strother <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maillist@steelskies.com">maillist@steelskies.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Marshal.dump would be the obvious choice. Just make sure you're<br>
either storing it as binary or converting to base64 first, to avoid<br>
interesting encoding/decoding problems in mysql.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On 14 July 2011 10:11, Andrew Stewart <<a href="mailto:boss@airbladesoftware.com">boss@airbladesoftware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hola El Rug,<br>
><br>
> 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?<br>
><br>
> 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).<br>
><br>
> Should I be switching to something other than YAML?<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Andy Stewart<br>
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