Dry de/serialize nested Hashes/Arrays of ActiveRecords

Strips unnecessary info like attributes/associations from infinetly deep Hashes/Arrays.

Install

sudo gem install ar_serialize

Or

rails plugin install git://github.com/grosser/ar_serialize.git

Usage

{:foo => <User>}.to_yaml --> tons of stuff including asociations and attriutes
ArSerialize.seriazlize(:foo => <User>) --> {:foo => "ActiveRecord:User:15"}
ArSerialize.deseriazlize(:foo => 'ActiveRecord:User:15') --> {:foo => <User>}

Author

Michael Grosser
michael@grosser.it
Hereby placed under public domain, do what you want, just do not hold me accountable...