== ODB

The ruby object database

== Notes:

This stuff is still in pre-alpha. Don't expect it to work for anything useful just quite yet.

== Installation

./bin/odb-install

== Usage === Process 1

Set up ODB

require 'lib/odb' Odb.path = "."

Load your classes, data

class Foo attr_accessor :bar end

f = Foo.new f.bar = "a_value" a = [1, "bar", f]

store your data

Odb::Object.write(a) #=> 4 (the object_id)

=== Process 2

Set up ODB

require 'lib/odb' Odb.path = "."

Load your classes

class Foo attr_accessor :bar end

Read + Write your data

a = Odb::Object.read(4) => [object_id:0, object_id:1, object_id:3] a[0] => 1 a[1] => "bar" a[2] => #<Foo:0x10115d018 @bar="a_value">

== Bugs

• User written C classes not supported
• Any class which doesn't return the class name with "to_s" won't be loadable.
• No support for anything Marshal doesn't support: Classes, Procs, Lambdas, Methods, UnboundMethods