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how do you use marshal.dump in Ruby please? Hey, I'm learning Ruby and I've just about got it sorted. I have just one (or maybe more) question(s): What is marshal.dump and does it allow you to save data to a file outside of the Ruby program? If not, how do I create saved data (ie. character attributes inside a text-based game)? Thanks for answers!
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Originally Posted by Gazco 
Hey, I'm learning Ruby and I've just about got it sorted. I have just one (or maybe more) question(s): What is marshal.dump and does it allow you to save data to a file outside of the Ruby program? If not, how do I create saved data (ie. character attributes inside a text-based game)? Thanks for answers!
For some reason the rubycentral site seems to be down so the original article I'd link to isn't available, however it's in the google cache.
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Originally Posted by Gazco
Hey, I'm learning Ruby and I've just about got it sorted. I have just one (or maybe more) question(s): What is marshal.dump and does it allow you to save data to a file outside of the Ruby program? If not, how do I create saved data (ie. character attributes inside a text-based game)? Thanks for answers!
You can read this small tutorial here -
http://sitekreator.com/satishtalim/o...alization.html
Hope that helps.
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Thanks, these sites really helped a lot and answered my questions, but the last one also brought up one little one: in the second example the programmer used What does the string do and do please? Thanks once again for any help.
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Originally Posted by Gazco
Thanks, these sites really helped a lot and answered my questions, but the last one also brought up one little one: in the second example the programmer usedWhat does the string do and do please? Thanks once again for any help.File.open('game', 'w+') do |f|
"w+" is a mode string; it truncates the file (or creates a new one if it doesn't exist)
|f| is a block. Basically it means that in the following code f refers to the file.
A quick example of a simple block:
>> 5.times do |i| ?> puts i.to_s >> end 0 1 2 3 4 => 5
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