From: "Rebhan, Gilbert" <Gilbert.Rebhan@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T17:15:28+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML.load_file problems

 
Hi,

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefano Crocco [mailto:stefano.crocco@alice.it] 
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 1:08 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: YAML.load_file problems

/*
First point: your second yaml file contains a mistake: you need to put a
space 
between the key of a hash and the value, so the second line should be

CVSEXE: "//foobar/c$/tools/cvsnt/cvs.exe"

(note the space after the :)
*/

thanks for the pointer !

/*
At any rate, I don't think you need to use two yaml documents for what
you're 
doing. Simply use a top-level hash, with keys CVSEXE and cvsrepos:

---
CVSEXE: "//foobar/c$/tools/cvsnt/cvs.exe"
cvsrepos:
- test
- test1
- foo
- bar
- foobar

YAML.load_file('config.yaml')
=> "CVSEXE"=>"//foobar/c$/tools/cvsnt/cvs.exe", "cvsrepos"=>["test",
"test1", "foo", "bar", "foobar"]}
*/

yup that works in irb, but not in my script, i think the config.yaml
format is ok, but my access of
cvsrepos and CVSEXE is wrong =

require 'yaml' 
require "highline/import"

YAML.load_file("config.yaml")

cvsuser = ask("Enter CVS User:       ") {|q| 
q.default = "#{ENV["USERNAME"]}"
q.echo = true}
cvspass = ask("Enter your password:  ") { |q| q.echo = '*' }

cvsrepos.each {|x|
puts "Login CVS Repository >> #{x} ..." 
IO.popen("#{CVSEXE} -d
:pserver:#{cvsuser}:#{cvspass}@cvsprod:d:/cvsrepos/#{x} login")
}
puts "Login successful !!"

and config.yaml

---
CVSEXE: "//foobar/c$/tools/cvsnt/cvs.exe"
cvsrepos:
- test
- test1
- foo
- bar
- foobar

the shell disappears right after the input of the password, without any
further (error)message.
Hm, any ideas what's wrong ? I thought YAML would be the recommended way
for
configfiles in ruby.

Or a simple alternative to yaml ?

Regards, Gilbert