From: Dean <dean.brundage@...>
Date: 2006-12-20T16:45:12+09:00
Subject: Re: undefined method `to_sym' for #<YAML::Syck::MergeKey...


John Pywtorak wrote:
> What is the output from % ruby -v

0 wicked scripts/sharkwatch % ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-04 patchlevel 2) [i686-linux]

> I know partly what is happening is making the keys for a hash as
> symbols, hence symbolize_keys.  Now that may have been obvious, but is
> the reason why?  Turns out, at least for me it was not obvious that a
> String key and a symbol key of the same name are not equivalent, that is
> they don't hash equally.  So, I believe this is part of the equation,
> wish I knew more.  Hope this leads to getting help.

Thanks for the reply,

--Dean