From: Sean Hussey <seanhussey@...>
Date: 2006-03-25T06:20:29+09:00
Subject: Basic YAML help - collection of objects with attributes

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to output a YAML file that will list users and some of
their LDAP attributes.  For instance (non-YAML):

uid: seanhussey
dn: uid=seanhussey,dc=company,dc=com
anotherattr: 39392:12341

The last attr is formatted like that, with the colon, in case that's important.

What I'd like to do is write this out to a file and then be able to
read it back in such that I can iterate over every user and work on
the data.  My first pass at this gave me this format:

seanhussey:
  dn: uid=seanhussey,dc=company,dc=com
  anotherattr: 39392:12341

Etc, for every user.  Although I write a hash to the file, when it all
comes out, it's a bunch of arrays.  Trying to access pieces of data by
their name doesn't work.

users = YAML.load_file("users.yaml")

users.each { |user|
  puts user[0]
  user[1].each { |a|
    puts a[0]
    puts a[1]
  }
}

This gets me:

seanhussey
anotherattr
39392:12341
dn
uid=seanhussey,dc=company,dc=com

How do I get to user[:uid], user[:anotherattr] and user[:dn] ?

Thank you!

Sean