license

COPYING

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+            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
+                    Version 2, December 2004
+
+ Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
+  14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
+ Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
+ copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
+ as the name is changed.
+
+            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
+   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
+
+  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
+

README.md

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+Marshalize
+==========
+
+This Rails plugin provides serialization using Marshal in the same way Rails provides builtin serialization using YAML. In a model, just do
+    class Robot < ActiveRecord::Base
+      marshalize :features
+    end
+and your app will automagically handle the `features` attribute using Marshal, dumping when saving to the database, loading when fetching from it.
+
+You can register any object.
+
+Example
+-------
+
+    class Robot < ActiveRecord::Base
+      
+      marshalize :parameters               # the "parameters" attribute will be saved as binary data
+      
+      marshalize :features,  RobotFeature  # you can define what kind of object is to be marshalized
+                                           # an error will be raised if another class is provided for
+                                           # this attribute
+      
+      serialize  :status,    Array         # marshalization plays well with YAML classic serialization
+
+    end
+
+TODO
+----
+
+* super() stuff
+* manage blobs, not just text field (buffer limitations)
+
+
+License
+-------
+
+Released under the WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING)