Can't Marshal a ROXML object because of Proc variables

[findchris]

Hi there.

Just recently, I started getting this error when trying to put my class in memcache: no marshal_dump is defined for class Proc

I inspected some of the objects, and sometimes an object does indeed contain a Proc. See below: @blocks=[#Proc:0x0197eff4@/path_to/gems/roxml-3.1.5/lib/roxml/definition.rb:186]

Is there anything I can do to eagerly call these procs to avoid this issue? Can you shed any light on what this variable is used for?

Cheers.

[findchris]

One more bit of info: I only started encountering this problem after I added another layer of XML nesting.

The modeling: class Activities include ROXML xml_accessor :activities, :as => [Activity] end

class Activity
  include ROXML
  xml_accessor :name
  xml_accessor :comment_engagement_datas, :as => [CommentEngagementData], :in => "recent_comment_engagement_datas"
end

class CommentEngagementData < EngagementData 
  include ROXML
  xml_accessor :name
end

class EngagementData
  include ROXML
  xml_accessor :created_at
  def initialize
    self.created_at = Time.now
  end
end

Could this have to do with the inheritance in the latter class? Is the Time.now reference triggering something in the CORE_BLOCK_SHORTHANDS logic?

Thanks again.

[findchris]

Just found this after stumbling across the History.txt: Default attrs ending in '_at' to DateTime. This can be overriden via :as

I believe I've isolated the problem, so opened a new issue and will close this one.

New issue lives here: http://github.com/Empact/roxml/issues/issue/23

-Chris

[findchris]

Closing.