# Ron 0.1.2 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ron-0-1-2-released/181029>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 4, 2010, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ron-0-1-2-released/181029 "2010-01-04T08:27:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![pandemic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@pandemic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pandemic)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 8:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ron-0-1-2-released/181029/1 "2010-01-04T08:27:36Z")

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Ron version 0.1.2 has been released!

- [GitHub - coatl/ron: Well, who needed another serialization format? Not me, but that's what I've made. Ruby Object Notation (Ron) is a textual format for the representation of Ruby data structures. It's somewhat like YAML, XML, or (most of all) JSON. However, since it is defined entirely within and as a subset of Ruby, it has the slick property that Ron expressions are legal Ruby. Thus it is very like JSON, except that it's Ruby-centered instead of being JavaScript-centered.](http://github.com/coatl/ron)

Well, who needed another serialization format? Not me, but that’s  
what I’ve made. Ruby Object Notation (Ron) is a textual format for  
the representation of Ruby data structures. It’s somewhat like  
YAML, XML, or (most of all) JSON. However, since it is defined  
entirely within and as a subset of Ruby, it has the slick  
property that Ron expressions are legal Ruby. Thus it is very  
like JSON, except that it’s Ruby-centered instead of being  
JavaScript-centered.

Another way to look at Ron is as a purely declarative language  
for creating (almost) any type of Ruby data structure.

Installation:  
Use this command to install the gem:  
gem install Ron  
or download the tarball from rubyforge:  
[http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/68389/Ron-0.1.2.tar.gz](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/68389/Ron-0.1.2.tar.gz)

Changes:

### 0.1.2 / 21dec2009

- 5 Major Bugfixes:

- 2 Minor Bugfixes:

- 1 Minor Enhancement:

- Improvements to object graph copying:

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**Author:** ![pandemic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@pandemic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pandemic)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ron-0-1-2-released/181029/2 "2010-01-12T00:58:43Z")

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On 1/3/2010 11:27 PM, Caleb C. wrote:

> Ron version 0.1.2 has been released!

Hi, Caleb,

The use of Class#- is very nice and tidy!

Reminds me a bit of amarshal[1], but I’m not sure how the latter handled  
instances of class K (as opposed to arrays an so on).

Rgds!

[1] [http://www.a-k-r.org/amarshal/](http://www.a-k-r.org/amarshal/)