From: "Buddy Lindsey, Jr." <percent20@...>
Date: 2011-02-09T09:21:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Am I misunderstanding something with my YAML code?

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Okay, that is what I get for refactoring code. I totally missed that. I was
trying to make the code a little prettier than it was and completely
disregarded YAML.dump. That makes sense

Thanks,
Buddy

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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 8, 2011, at 15:41 , Buddy Lindsey, Jr. wrote:
>
> > I thought I was grasping the concepts of yaml, but I am growing confused
> as
> > I am messing with it doing some example coding with it. Here is a gist of
> my
> > code.
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/817528
> >
> > It works fine until it goes to load the main.yaml file at which point I
> get
> > the following error.
> >
> > yaml1.rb:37:in `<main>': undefined method `width' for
> > #<String:0x000001010fb9d0> (NoMethodError)
> >
> > It seems like it should work. Am I just missing something or am I
> > approaching it wrong.
>
> You're serializing yaml to yaml:
>
> > serialized = Square.new(2,3).to_yaml
> >
> > # save yaml to file
> > File.open('main.yaml', 'w') do |out|
> >   YAML.dump(serialized, out)
> > end
>
> % ri YAML.dump
> = YAML.dump
>
> (from ruby core)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  dump( obj, io = nil )
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Converts obj to YAML and writes the YAML result to io.
>
>  File.open( 'animals.yaml', 'w' ) do |out|
>    YAML.dump( ['badger', 'elephant', 'tiger'], out )
>  end
>
> If no io is provided, a string containing the dumped YAML is returned.
>
>  YAML.dump( :locked )
>     #=> "--- :locked"
>
>
>

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