wayneeseguin/rvm-test — comment on commit 4fec20a828099afe748b3fb183cf3d96a5d77767
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By deryldoucette:

See http://ssscripting.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/ruby-marshal-example/ for working example the variable name selection came from. This clearly denotes what is happening. Reading from the file to a ruby variable thus rebuilding the object that was dumped TO the file, and the exact opposite (writing to).