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marshal_serialization

🎁 Using Marshal for Simple Object Serialization​

Ruby’s built-in Marshal module provides a fast way to convert Ruby objects into a byte stream and back. This is ideal for caching complex objects or storing them in files for quick reloads.

# Serialize an object to a byte string
data = { name: "Alice", age: 30 }
serialized = Marshal.dump(data)

# Deserialize the byte string back to a Ruby object
original = Marshal.load(serialized)
puts original[:name]  # => "Alice"