From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-03-16T07:37:51+09:00
Subject: Re: baffling undefined method error - addendum

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@comcast.net> wrote:
> Tom Cloyd wrote:
>  > I'm getting an error I can't account for. In a method I've written I
>  > open a file and access a yaml store:
>  >
>  > archive_stored_list = 'archive_stored_list.yml'
>  > archives_stored_catalog = File.open(archive_stored_list) {|i|
>  > YAML.load(i)}
>  >
>  > I massage the data a bit, and want to write it back out to the same
>  > file. I try to close the file so I can open it for output, but get an
>  > error:
>  >
>  > archives_stored_catalog.close # <= "undefined method `close'" error is
>  > written to log file here
>  > open(archive_stored_list,"w")  {|i| YAML.dump(archives_stored_catalog,i)}
>  >

The File.open block version automagically closes the file.

Todd