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I love the simplicity of YAML::Store. It was introduced in Ruby 1.8, almost 20 years ago (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/55f4dc4c9a5345c28d0da750d1ee00fbb0

by brunno 4y ago

I love the simplicity of YAML::Store. It was introduced in Ruby 1.8, almost 20 years ago (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/55f4dc4c9a5345c28d0da750d1ee00fbb0870885 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/55f4dc4c9a5345c28d0da750...). I even created a little gem when I was starting with Ruby, 10 years ago, that was a very thin wrapper around it so that I could play around using an ActiveRecord like syntax (https://github.com/brunnogomes/active_yaml https://github.com/brunnogomes/active_yaml). I used in some pet projects so I could do stuff like: p = Post.new p.title = "Great post!" p.body = "Lorem ipsum..." p.save Post.all # => [#<Post:0x895bb38 @title="Great post!", @body="Lorem ipsum...", @id=1>] Post.find(1) # => #<Post:0x954bc69 @title="Great post!", @body="Lorem ipsum...", @id=1> Post.where(author: 'Brunno', visibility: 'public') # => [#<Post:0x895bb38 @author="Brunno", @visibility="public", @id=1>, #<Post:0x457pa36 @author="Brunno", @visibility="public", @id=2>] And have access to the data directly in the YAML files. Good times!

3pt14159 4y ago
The problem with YAML is that meaningful whitespace means that the size grows quickly for highly nested documents. I don't love XML, but there is a reason I recommended Ox. I've used it for real projects and it never fell over like so many of the alternatives I've tried where databases were not in the cards.
- fny 4y ago
  The problem with XML is that angle bracket expressions take up too much space because you need to duplicate element names. I don't love JSON, but there is a reason I recommend OJ. ... The problem with JSON is that the keys take up too much space because they are duplicated. I don't love BSON, but there's a reason why I recommend bson-ruby. And I could keep going... ;) The benefit of using YAML is precisely that there's meaningful whitespace. Different strokes for different folks.

by brunno 4y ago

3pt14159 4y ago

The problem with YAML is that meaningful whitespace means that the size grows quickly for highly nested documents. I don't love XML, but there is a reason I recommended Ox. I've used it for real projects and it never fell over like so many of the alternatives I've tried where databases were not in the cards.

fny 4y ago
The problem with XML is that angle bracket expressions take up too much space because you need to duplicate element names. I don't love JSON, but there is a reason I recommend OJ. ... The problem with JSON is that the keys take up too much space because they are duplicated. I don't love BSON, but there's a reason why I recommend bson-ruby. And I could keep going... ;) The benefit of using YAML is precisely that there's meaningful whitespace. Different strokes for different folks.