# Ruby "Save Game" function **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 16, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-save-game-function/183525 "2010-02-16T04:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-save-game-function/183525/1 "2010-02-16T04:32:50Z")
Hello! I am currently working on a text-based RPG and I wanted to implement a function that allowed the user to save their game at any point, so that it could be resumed later. Of course, this would need to be complimented by a load function that would resume the game at that previous state. Anybody know how I would do this? 🙂 Thank you in advance! -SS ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-save-game-function/183525/2 "2010-02-16T07:07:18Z")
Michael B. wrote: > I am currently working on a text-based RPG and I wanted to implement a > function that allowed the user to save their game at any point, so that > it could be resumed later. Of course, this would need to be complimented > by a load function that would resume the game at that previous state. For starters, I’d suggest looking at PStore and YAML::Store. PStore: [http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/pstore/rdoc/classes/PStore.html](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/pstore/rdoc/classes/PStore.html) YAML::Store exmaple: [http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/113207](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/113207) PStore and YAML::Store are essentially equivalent in functionality, the difference is PStore saves objects in Ruby’s binary marshal format, whereas YAML::Store saves objects in human-readable YAML text format. And the trade-off is that YAML is slower than marshal. Further possibilities for key/value stores with Ruby: [http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/key-value-stores-in-ruby/](http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/key-value-stores-in-ruby/) [http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/key-value-stores-for-ruby-part-2-tokyo-cabinet/](http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/key-value-stores-for-ruby-part-2-tokyo-cabinet/) [http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/cassandra-and-ruby-a-love-affair/](http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/cassandra-and-ruby-a-love-affair/) [http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/key-value-stores-for-ruby-part-4-to-redis-or-not-to-redis/](http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/key-value-stores-for-ruby-part-4-to-redis-or-not-to-redis/) [http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/mongodb-a-light-in-the-darkness-key-value-stores-part-5/](http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/mongodb-a-light-in-the-darkness-key-value-stores-part-5/) [http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/key-value-stores-in-ruby-the-wrap-up/](http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/key-value-stores-in-ruby-the-wrap-up/) Hope this helps, Bill ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-save-game-function/183525/3 "2010-02-16T11:52:08Z")
Bill, Thank you for the links! It’s still a lot to chew on, but I’ll try to figure it all out. 😛 Best Regards, -SS ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-save-game-function/183525/4 "2010-02-16T14:30:58Z")
On 16 Feb., 11:52, Michael B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Bill, > > Thank you for the links! It’s still a lot to chew on, but I’ll try to > figure it all out. 😛 > > Best Regards, > > ## -SS > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. Hi, you could try out MongoDB or CouchDB as well. > **[MongoDB: The Developer Data Platform](https://www.mongodb.com/)** > > Get your ideas to market faster with a developer data platform built on the leading modern database. MongoDB makes working with data easy. [http://couchdb.apache.org/](http://couchdb.apache.org/) ---
**Author:** ![michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@michaelb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/michaelb)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-save-game-function/183525/5 "2010-02-18T01:21:23Z")
Michael B. wrote: > Hello! > > I am currently working on a text-based RPG and I wanted to implement a > function that allowed the user to save their game at any point, so that > it could be resumed later. Of course, this would need to be complimented > by a load function that would resume the game at that previous state. > > Anybody know how I would do this? 🙂 > > Thank you in advance! > > -SS May I suggest “sequel + sqlite”? [http://sequel.rubyforge.org/](http://sequel.rubyforge.org/)