saving objects to files

[Ell Quing]

Is there a way to save an object (say, a hash map) to a file, and then
retrieve the object from the file?

Thanks

 

[Farrel Lifson]

Is there a way to save an object (say, a hash map) to a file, and then
retrieve the object from the file?

Thanks

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Marshal.html

 

[Robert Klemme]

Is there a way to save an object (say, a hash map) to a file, and then
retrieve the object from the file?

Marshal and YAML are the easiest. Depending on your need you might want
to use PStore or a database. HTH

Kind regards

robert