Class: Evolvable::Serializer

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/evolvable/serializer.rb

Overview

Evolvable supports saving and restoring the state of both populations and individual evolvable instances through a built-in Serializer. By default, it uses Ruby's Marshal class for fast, portable binary serialization.

Serialization is useful for:

  • Saving progress during long-running evolution
  • Storing champion solutions for later reuse
  • Transferring evolved populations between systems
  • Creating checkpoints you can revert to

Both Population and individual evolvables expose dump and load methods that use the Serializer internally.

Save a population to a file:

population = YourEvolvable.new_population
population.evolve(count: 100)
File.write("population.marshal", population.dump)

Restore and continue evolution:

data = File.read("population.marshal")
restored = Evolvable::Population.load(data)
restored.evolve(count: 100)

Save an individual evolvable's genome:

best = restored.best_evolvable
File.write("champion.marshal", best.dump_genome)

Restore genome into a new evolvable:

raw = File.read("champion.marshal")
champion = YourEvolvable.new_evolvable
champion.load_genome(raw)

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.dump(data) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/evolvable/serializer.rb', line 52

def dump(data)
  klass.dump(data)
end

.load(data) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/evolvable/serializer.rb', line 56

def load(data)
  klass.load(data)
end