On Thu, 07 December 2000, hipster wrote:
> You could use the Marshal module to serialize objects
> to/from any IO stream, e.g. files, and rehydrate them
> when needed. Serialized objects are orthogonal to 
> Ruby instantiations and memory management.

This looks promising for other stuff.  I'll have to look at marshal further when I'm ready to store stuff.

But I'm not sure if it'll work for what I need at the moment.  I'd have to save my "long living" objects at configuration, and then re-hydrate them for every request.  I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that would add too much overhead to the request start-up.

... Ami.