From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-03-17T10:56:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Parse error with RubyGems yaml file


On Mar 16, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Scott Harper wrote:

> I've had good luck with RubyGems on Win32. However, using Ruby 1.8.1
> on FreeBSD 5.2.1 I'm unable to search for and install gems.
>
> For example, gem --remote-install=rake produces this error:
>
>  /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:in `load': parse error on line
> 413, col 14: `     platform: ' (ArgumentError)
>    from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:in `load'
>    from 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:61:in
> `get_caches'
>
> YAML.load(response.body) seems to be choking on this Line 413 in the
> http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml file:
>
>     date: 2004-03-13 11:52:16.679819 -05:00
>
> Any ideas why YAML's not happy and how I can correct it?
>

Rich and I are looking at this now.  So far no luck.  It looks valid.

_why?

Chad