Hash inside YAML file?
I want to include a hash and list inside a YAML file that I'm parsing with the following command:
APP_CONFIG = YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/config.yml")
My YAML file looks like this:
feeds: [{:url => 'http://www.google.com', :label => 'default'}]
But this doesn't seem to work. How would I go about achieving such a thing?
Thanks, Yuval
EDIT: Sorry开发者_JAVA技巧, guys. I'm still unclear about how to do this and I suspect it is in part due to my somewhat vague phrasing. I asked a better-phrased, more broad question here. Thank you!
You can mark it up like this
feeds:
-
url: 'http://www.google.com'
label: 'default'
Note the spacing is important here. "-" must be indented by a single space (not a tab), and followed by a single space. And url
& label
must be indented by two spaces (not tabs either).
Additionally this might be helpful: http://www.yaml.org/YAML_for_ruby.html
Ceilingfish's answer is maybe technically correct, but he recommends to use a white space at the end of a line. This is prone to errors and is not a good practice!
This is how I would do it:
Create a settings.yaml file with the following contents:
---
feeds:
:url: 'http://www.google.com'
:label: 'default'
This will create the following hash after the YAML file has been loaded:
irb(main):001:0> require 'yaml'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> YAML.load_file('settings.yaml')
=> {"feeds"=>{:url=>"http://www.google.com", :label=>"default"}}
irb(main):003:0>
In this example, I also use symbols since this seems to be the preferred way of storing Ruby keys in Ruby.
Old question, but since I was in a similar spot... Like Jasper pointed out, Ceilingfish's answer is correct. But you can also do
feeds:
- url: 'http://www.google.com'
label: 'default'
to avoid having to rely on trailing whitespace after the dash.
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