Everything You Need to know about Serialization in Rails: Part I

That's when I realized the computing world is not very different from the real world. They dismantled the bed for transportation and then reassembled at the destination. Similarly, in the computing world, we deconstruct objects or data structures in a format that enables easy storage/transfer and reconstruct them whenever required. This is nothing but serialization.In short, serialization is turning a complex "3-D" object into a single long "2-D" string. This can then be stored anywhere or made to travel across the web easily.