BERT
A BERT (Binary ERlang Term) serialization library for Ruby. It can encode Ruby objects into BERT format and decode BERT binaries into Ruby objects.
See the BERT specification at bert-rpc.org.
Instances of the following Ruby classes will be automatically converted to the proper simple BERT type:
- Fixnum
- Float
- Symbol
- Array
- String
Instances of the following Ruby classes will be automatically converted to the proper complex BERT type:
- NilClass
- TrueClass
- FalseClass
- Hash
- Time
- Regexp
To designate tuples, simply prefix an Array literal with a t or use the
BERT::Tuple class:
t[:foo, [1, 2, 3]]
BERT::Tuple[:foo, [1, 2, 3]]
Both of these will be converted to (in Erlang syntax):
{foo, [1, 2, 3]}
Installation
gem install bert -s http://gemcutter.org
Usage
require 'bert'
bert = BERT.encode(t[:user, {:name => 'TPW', :nick => 'mojombo'}])
# => "\203h\002d\000\004userh\003d\000\004bertd\000\004dictl\000\000\
000\002h\002d\000\004namem\000\000\000\003TPWh\002d\000\004nickm\
000\000\000\amojomboj"
BERT.decode(bert)
# => t[:user, {:name=>"TPW", :nick=>"mojombo"}]
Note on Patches/Pull Requests
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
- Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
- Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2009 Tom Preston-Werner. See LICENSE for details.