From: Mateusz Tybura <wujciol@...>
Date: 2008-03-16T23:10:03+09:00
Subject: Re: argh! more undocumented mysteries: to_yaml

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I'm beginner to but I understand it. You cannot use to_yaml for Array,
because there's no method to_yaml for Array. Try to read about
Object#to_yaml in Ruby Documentation.

2008/3/16, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@comcast.net>:
>
> Beginner woes, here, no doubt, but woes nevertheless.
>
> I'm exploring the wonders of the Object class, and I see Object#to_yaml.
> Seems pretty obvious what to expect here, which would seem to account
> for the total lack of documentation in each of the gazillion instances
> of this method which appear in core library. Still, let's test it...
>
> irb(main):010:0> [2,5,3,6,'abc'].to_yaml
> NoMethodError: undefined method `to_yaml' for [2, 5, 3, 6, "abc"]:Array
>         from (irb):10
>         from :0
>
> Can someone explain what just happened?
>
> Thanks!
>
> t.
>
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