From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-05-31T06:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: yaml - ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i686-linux]

On Mon, 31 May 2004 02:27:34 +0900, Paul Vudmaska wrote

> Hello,
> I'm trying to use yaml for the first time - i'm getting a load error 
>  yaml/parser - it dies here in yaml.rb.
> 
>     begin
>         require 'yaml/syck'
>         @@parser = YAML::Syck::Parser
>         @@loader = YAML::Syck::DefaultLoader
>         @@emitter = YAML::Syck::Emitter
>     rescue LoadError
>         require 'yaml/parser'
>         @@parser = YAML::Parser
>         @@loader = YAML::DefaultLoader
>         require 'yaml/emitter'
>         @@emitter = YAML::Emitter
>     end

Paul, YAML support comes with Ruby 1.8.1.  All you need to do is:

require 'yaml'


Then you can do whatever you need.

-----
begin
  cf = File.open configuration_file
rescue Exception => e
  mylog.error "Ut oh.  Couldn't load the configuration file: #{e}"
  raise
end

@@config = YAML::load(cf)
-----
File.open('mydata','w+') {|fh| fh.print mydata.to_yaml}
-----

and so on.


Kirk Haines