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Ruby Ruby Core and Standard Library Ruby Standard Library: Part 2 YAML

Cody Mumford
Cody Mumford
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Posted by Cody Mumford
Cody Mumford
11,531 Points

Can't figure out how to assign the results of loading yaml_string in to another variable called treehouse.

I tried treehouse = yaml_string among other solutions.

yaml.rb 
yaml_string = "---\n:name: Treehouse\n:location: Portland, OR\n"

require 'yaml'

YAML.load

1 Answer

Angela Visnesky
Angela Visnesky
20,927 Points
Angela Visnesky
Angela Visnesky
20,927 Points

Hi Cody, I understand the frustration of trying a billion combinations. Here's the answer that worked for me:

require 'yaml'
yaml_string = "---\n:name: Treehouse\n:location: Portland, OR\n"
treehouse = YAML.load(yaml_string)

Here is a link to the documentation that explains YAML. (http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.1/libdoc/yaml/rdoc/YAML.html)