From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-21T06:20:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Yaml & SortKeys in 1.8.4

Ron M wrote:
> 
> IIRC, in a previous version, I was able to make more
> human-friendly YAML using the :SortKeys option as shown below.
> 
> Since upgrading to 1.8.4 the keys seem not to be sorted anymore.
> Has the way of doing this changed?   I hope this feature hasn't
> gone away.  The main reason we're using YAML instead of XML is
> that it was more human-readable, and the SortKeys option added
> a major part of the human-readability.
> 
> 
> 
> irb(main):016:0> puts(
> {1,'a',2,'b',3,'c',4,'d',5,'d'}.to_yaml(:Indent=>1,:SortKeys=>true))
> ---
> 5: d
> 1: a
> 2: b
> 3: c
> 4: d
> => nil

It grieves me also. I submitted a request to:

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/syck/ticket/3

In the interim, you can load the following patch whenever you want to
get sorted hash keys (for all hashes, unfortunately).

class Hash
  def to_yaml( opts = {} )
    YAML::quick_emit( object_id, opts ) do |out|
      out.map( taguri, to_yaml_style ) do |map|
        sorted_keys = keys
        sorted_keys = begin
          sorted_keys.sort
        rescue
          sorted_keys.sort_by {|k| k.to_s} rescue sorted_keys
        end

        sorted_keys.each do |k|
          map.add( k, fetch(k) )
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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