From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2013-06-17T23:22:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Issue in reading data from yaml file

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

>> If you (ahem) read the docs, YAML.load works on strings, not files,
>
> Does it?

Via the http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/yaml/rdoc/YAML.html
"Usage" example:

  require 'yaml' # STEP ONE, REQUIRE YAML!
  # Parse a YAML string
  YAML.load("--- foo") #=> "foo"

Seems straightforward enough  :-)

> I'd rather use the form with the IO object because that avoids the overhead
> of reading the whole file into memory at once.

The phrase "premature optimization" comes to mind, given the
example under discussion, but whatever floats your boat  :-)

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