Robert Klemme
10/27/2008 3:49:00 PM
2008/10/27 Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2008/10/27 Jamal Soueidan <jamal@soueidan.com>:
>>> I want to ask if it's possible to save object reference in database for
>>> later use?
>>
>> No, not directly. How should that work?
>
> Well, technically it *is* possible to save object references - see
> weakref.rb for an implementation.
Hey, normally *I* am supposed to be the nitpick! What's the point in
storing something that you cannot reasonably retrieve? This is only
useful for a WOM. *gg*
> But this is almost certainly not what the OP wants (since those object
> references won't survive garbage collection, or application restart)
Exactly!
Kind regards
robert
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