[Rails] Deep Copy Method?

[Eric Hodel]

On 03 Jan 2005, at 12:44, Thomas Counsell wrote:

> Have you got a / can you help with a generic method for doing a deep 
> copy of a set of Rails objects?
>
> I see there is a clone method for individual objects.
>
> I can also see it would be pretty easy to implement a method that 
> copies down a tree.
>
> The tricky bit is how to deep copy where objects within the tree 
> reference each other?
>
> Thanks for any tips.

class Object
   def deep_clone
     Marshal.load Marshal.dump(self)
   end
end

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