From: John Trupiano <jtrupiano@...>
Date: 2008-09-06T02:02:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in the YAML library: #dump fails for certain multi-line 	strings

Just upping this because I think it's particularly important.  Is
there a better venue to discuss this?  Just curious where the
interested parties (read: the ruby YAML library maintainers) are.....

-John

On Sep 5, 6:17 am, John Trupiano <jtrupi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I stumbled across what is a bug in the YAML library.  It does not
> properly encode certain multi-line strings.  Fire up irb, and try the
> following:
>
> >> require 'yaml'
> => true
> >> s3 = "\n  Do I work?\nNo indent"
>
> => "\n  Do I work?\nNo indent">> YAML.load(YAML.dump(s3))
>
> ArgumentError: syntax error on line 3, col 0: `No indent'
>         from /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080810/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in
> `load'
>         from /opt/ruby-enterprise-1.8.6-20080810/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in
> `load'
>         from (irb):3
>
> I've confirmed it's broken in both 1.8.6.p111, and REE 1.8.6.p287.
>
> I wrote up a pretty thorough exploration of this bug in a blog post
> describing the problem and offering a (sub-optimal) patch:http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/09/04/ruby-patch-to-fix-brok...
>
> Is this the right list to discuss this?
>
> -John