From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-04-05T16:43:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't 'build' WPGTR...

Stephan K�mper wrote:

> I tried to 'build' Why's poignant guide to Ruby on my machine, but got
> this message:
> 
>     C:\tmp\wpgtr>C:\tmp\wpgtr\poignant.rb .
>     c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:in `load': parse error on line 1160,
>     col 4: `    - !^sidebar' (ArgumentError)
>             from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:in `load'
>             from C:/tmp/wpgtr/poignant.rb:12:in `load'
>             from C:/tmp/wpgtr/poignant.rb:78

Oh, I'm sure it won't work with 1.8.0, but 1.8.1 should be fine. 
There's a kind friend on the poignant-stiffs list (the cavalier Chris 
Hoge) who had that identical error and solved it by upgrading to a 
stable snapshot of Ruby. [1]

I'm sorry.  I'll tie a little hanky to a readme warning in CVS.

_why

[1] ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz