Question

I am working with Rails fixtures for testing my rails application. It is all good except one of my database columns is supposed to hold YAML content. But, I am sure how to put the YAML markup I want to load into my database inside the YAML file. Here is an example:

mvnforum:     name: mvnforum     abstraction_type: SVN     url: src: test username: admin #is this possible?     sourcepath: mvnforum/src/     webroot:     codesecure_project: mvnforum 

If it is impossible to have YAML inside a YAML file what would be the best why to load this into a database for testing?

Answer 1

If you want to put YAML code inside a YAML document, you need to treat it like a string:

url: 'src: test username: admin' 

If you need a multiline string, you can do

mvnforum:    name: mvnforum    abstraction_type: SVN    url: ' src: test\n username: admin\n '    sourcepath: mvnforum/src/    webroot:    codesecure_project: mvnforum