From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T06:15:44+09:00
Subject: Re: yaml nuby question - duplicate keys

Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Ruby 1.8.2
> 
> I'd like to have a config file that looks like this:
> 
> # test.yml
> foo:
>    user: usr1
>    password: pwd1
> foo:
>    user: usr2
>    password: pwd2
> bar:
>    user: usr3
>    password: pwd3
> 
> But, I try a simple YAML.load(File.open("test.yml") I lose one of the
> entries, because it loads it as a Hash which, of course, does not
> allow for duplicate keys.
> 
> Is there a way I can keep this kind of config file and still use YAML?
>  I looked at the various parse() options, but it started to go over my
> head at that point.

Try this (off the top of my head)
  # test.yml
- foo:
     user: usr1
     password: pwd1
- foo:
     user: usr2
     password: pwd2
- bar:
     user: usr3
     password: pwd3


This should give you a list of hashes; your code will have to do the 
merge to join up common items

James

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dan
> 
> .
>