From: eden li <eden.li@...>
Date: 2007-04-19T16:28:19+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML symbols

Weird... which version of YAML are you using?  It doesn't generate !
ruby/sym for me:

$ ruby -v -r yaml -e 'puts({:name => "John", :yaml_version =>
YAML::VERSION}.to_yaml)'
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]
---
:yaml_version: "0.60"
:name: John

On Apr 19, 2:20 pm, braver <delivera...@gmail.com> wrote:
> YAML writes out Ruby symbols as !ruby/sym, e.g. :name => 'John'
> becomes
>
> !ruby/sym name: John
>
> I write out megabytes of data, so I played with replacing !ruby/sym
> with a simple colon:
>
> :name: John
>
> -- and it gets loaded back just as the !ruby/sym version!
>
> Is there a way to instruct YAML to dump plain colon ':' instead of "!
> ruby/sym "?  Is reading back my version a guaranteed behavior?
>
> Cheers,
> Alexy