Backport #4329
Updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans) over 4 years ago
=begin Some strange behavior of YAML in ruby 1.8.7 on simple string: ruby-1.8.7-p330 :002 > require 'yaml' => true ruby-1.8.7-p330 :003 > YAML::load("\n {\n}".to_yaml) ArgumentError: syntax error on line 3, col 0: `}' from /Users/sand/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p330/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load' from /Users/sand/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p330/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load' from (irb):3 In ruby 1.9.2 seems to be all fine: ruby-1.9.2-head :011 > require 'yaml' => true ruby-1.9.2-head :012 > YAML::load("\n {\n}".to_yaml) => "\n {\n}" Check this on Mac OS and FreeBSD: Darwin 10.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.6.0: Wed Nov 10 18:13:17 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.26~3/RELEASE_I386 i386 FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE =end