Marshal Ruby classes into and out of multiple formats (yaml, json, csv, tsv)

require 'storable'

class Machine < Storable
  field :environment            # Define field names for Machine. The
  field :role                   # default type is String, but you can
  field :position => Integer    # specify a type using a hash syntax.
end

mac1 = Machine.new              # Instances of Machine have accessors
mac1.environment = "stage"      # just like regular attributes.
mac1.role = "app"
mac1.position = 1

puts "# YAML", mac1.to_yaml     # Note: the field order is maintained
puts "# CSV", mac1.to_csv       # => stage,app,1
puts "# JSON", mac1.to_json     # Note: field order not maintained.

mac2 = Machine.from_yaml(mac1.to_yaml)
puts mac2.environment           # => "stage"
puts mac2.position.class        # => Fixnum

require 'storable'

class Calc < Storable
  field :three
  field :two
  field :one
  sensitive_fields :three
end

calc = Calc.new 3, 2, 1
calc.to_a                       # => [3, 2, 1]
calc.sensitive!
calc.to_a                       # => [2, 1]

Storable can also marshal Proc objects to and from their actual source code.

require 'storable'

class Maths < Storable
  field :x         => Float
  field :y         => Float
  field :calculate => Proc
end

m1 = Maths.new 2.0, 3.0
m1.calculate = Proc.new { @x * @y }

m1.calculate.source            # => "{ @x * @y }"
m1.call :calculate             # => 6.0

dump = m1.to_json

m2 = Maths.from_json dump
m2.call :calculate             # => 6.0

Anything is possible when you keep your mind open and you use Ruby.

Via Rubygems, one of:

$ sudo gem install storable
$ sudo gem install delano-storable --source http://gems.github.com/

or via download:

• storable-latest.tar.gz

• storable-latest.zip

• Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9, or JRuby 1.2+

• Delano Mandelbaum (delano@solutious.com)

• lib/proc_source.rb is based on github.com/imedo/background

• OrderedHash implementation by Jan Molic

• Pierre Riteau (priteau) for bug fixes.

• notro for proc_source improvements.

• Codes

See: LICENSE.txt