From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-02-04T17:29:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Psych YAML problems


On Feb 3, 2012, at 16:25 , Jon Lambert wrote:

> 
> Caught Psych::SyntaxError: (xxxxxx.yaml): couldn't parse YAML at line 168 column 8
>       c:/apps/ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:154:in `parse'
>       c:/apps/ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:154:in `parse_stream'
>       c:/apps/ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:125:in `parse'
>       c:/apps/ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:112:in `load'
>       c:/apps/ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:229:in `load_file'
> ...
> 
> ...
> - !ruby/object:Command
> cmd: :cmd_gc                         <--OFFENDING LINE
> help: runs garbage collection
> name: @gc

I suspect it is @gc, not :cmd_gc:

% ruby19 -rpsych -ryaml -e 'p YAML.dump(:cmd => :cmd_gc)'
"---\n:cmd: :cmd_gc\n"

% ruby19 -rpsych -ryaml -e 'p YAML.dump(:cmd => "@gc")'
"---\n:cmd: ! '@gc'\n"