From: "Jörg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Ruby@...>
Date: 2010-02-13T08:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Ruby YAML interpreter?

Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
> I have a YAML file that looks something like this:
> 
> en:
>  countries:
> [...]
>     NO: "Norway"
> [...]
> country[0] comes up as false rather than as "NO".
> 
> Is this my weak understanding or is this a bug?

This is how Booleans are represented in YAML. An unescaped string
which is either "NO", "YES", "TRUE", "FALSE", "ON", "OFF", "Y" or "N"
(case-insensitive) is a Boolean value and not a string.

You need to escape the string:

	"NO": "Norway"

BTW: If you hadn't put all those '; nil' there, you would have seen
the 'false => "Norway"' key in the hash printed out in IRB.

jwm