From: John Barnette <jbarnette@...>
Date: 2010-04-05T14:01:49+09:00
Subject: Re: String to YAML to Hash

On Apr 4, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Jack Bauer wrote:
> I have a database "text" column with YAML-formatted content.

require "yaml"

hash = YAML.parse the_string

> 
> ---
> section:
>  first_item: this is the first item
>  second_item: this is the second item
> 
> I need to be able to convert all that into a hash. Something tells me
> Ruby has something built-in for this sort of task, but I'm not sure.
> This is what I tried:
> 
> Hash[the_string.split("\n").map{|s| s.split(": ")}]
> 
> But that isn't working. The problem is it essentially ends up formatting
> it like:
> 
> Hash[["---", "section", "first_item", "this is the first item",
> "second_item", "this is the second item"]]
> 
> And that outputs:
> 
> {}
> 
> If the [[ turned into [ so that it's not an array within the Hash object
> it would work. But whatever, that's probably not a good solution anyway.
> I'm hoping there's something neater and hopefully already built in to
> get me from that first YAML I posted to something more like:
> 
> {"section" => {"first_item" => "this is the first item", "second_item"
> => "this is the second item"}}
> 
> Thanks in advance, all.
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~ j.