Is there any standard package to dump to ruby data structures

[adm]

Is there any standard package to dump ruby data structures into a
string/stream? which can be eval'd back in ruby script. something like
perl's Data:umper?

 

[Eivind Eklund]

Is there any standard package to dump ruby data structures into a
string/stream? which can be eval'd back in ruby script. something like
perl's Data:umper?

You may want to look at YAML or Marshall; they are not quite what
you're describing, but may fill the need you're thinking about.

I don't know of anything that outputs code for eval.

Eivind.

 

[Jano Svitok]

Is there any standard package to dump ruby data structures into a
string/stream? which can be eval'd back in ruby script. something like
perl's Data:umper?

Marshal - faster; shorter binary data
YAML - slower, human readable/editable data

 

[Abdelkader Boudih]

You could use Marshal
see :
Marshal.dump
&
Marshal.load

 

[Bob Proulx]

Is there any standard package to dump ruby data structures into a
string/stream? which can be eval'd back in ruby script. something like
perl's Data:umper?

In addition to the other suggestions of Marshal and YAML you can also
use 'pp' on data objects.

irb(main):002:0> require 'pp'
=> true
irb(main):003:0> pp x
"foo"
irb(main):007:0> pp y
[1, nil, 3]
irb(main):012:0> pp z
{"three"=>3, "two"=>2, "one"=>1}

Bob

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

Is there any standard package to dump ruby data structures into a
string/stream? which can be eval'd back in ruby script. something like
perl's Data:umper?

Probably, the other answers are more helpful, but if you really want to
dump to ruby code that can be eval-ed back to get the objects, there is
amarshal:

http://www.a-k-r.org/amarshal