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I've just put online the latest version of our free Ruby programming eBook, The Book Of Ruby. This now has 14 chapters, contains 278 pages and comes with 222 small demo programs in the source code archive. The latest chapter explains how to serialize data - typically to save it to and from disk - using YAML. Using a few easy-to-master techniques, YAML allows you to save simple or complex data structures (containing simple or complex object types) in human-readable form. It isn't (...)