Creating classes with from YAML?

[David Garamond]

Remembering that all classes are instances of the Class class, is this
possible? I want to create some class named, say C1, which is empty (or
perhaps with one or two class instance vars) by loading a YAML document.
I can't seem to create instances of Class class in YAML, while I can
easily do this in irb:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> C1=Class.new
=> C1
irb(main):002:0> C1.new
=> #<C1:0x40174a1c>

 

[Eric Hodel]

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Remembering that all classes are instances of the Class class, is this=20
possible? I want to create some class named, say C1, which is empty (or= =20
perhaps with one or two class instance vars) by loading a YAML document.= =20
I can't seem to create instances of Class class in YAML, while I can=20
easily do this in irb:

irb(main):002:0> 5.to_yaml
=3D> "--- 5"
irb(main):003:0> Class.to_yaml
ArgumentError: can't dump anonymous class Class
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/rubytypes.rb:8:in `to_yaml'
from (irb):3
irb(main):004:0> class Foo; end
=3D> nil
irb(main):005:0> Foo.to_yaml
ArgumentError: can't dump anonymous class Class
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/rubytypes.rb:8:in `to_yaml'
from (irb):5

Does not appear possible to do with Yaml, but you can with Marshal:

irb(main):007:0> Marshal.dump(Foo)
=3D> "\004\010c\010Foo"


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