Marshal/Unmarshal problem with Jruby

While working on cross-stub today, ran into a marshal/unmarshal problem with jruby, caused by binary string encoding issue. Anyway, let's start by taking a look at some code:

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time1 = Time.now time2 = Marshal.load( %|#{Marshal.dump(time1).gsub('|','\|')}| ) puts time1 == time2

Here's what i got when running the above in different rubies:

#1. The expected output of Ruby 1.8.7 & Ruby 1.9.1 & Ree 1.8.7
# >> true


#2. The unexpected output of Jruby-1.5.1
# >> (eval):1:in `_load': marshaled time format differ (TypeError)

Did quite abit of research, either my googling skill sucks, or nobody has the same problem as me ... yet eventually found something at stackoverflow, which lights up the bulb, & here's the amended code that works for all the above-mentioned rubies:

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require 'base64' time1 = Time.now time2 = Marshal.load( Base64.decode64( %|#{Base64.encode64(Marshal.dump(time1)).gsub('|','\|')}| )) puts time1 == time2