Question

i currently try to import some XML via XMLSimple in my RoR-3 App.

on 1 position, that XML stores a YAML-Structure. Dont slap me, i did not create the xml 😉

now that i have it stored in a variable, lets say yamldata, i want to parse its content.

so i do:

chunks = YAML::load yamldata

and thats pretty it.

when i now echo these chunks-values to console, it get this:

• Bülach vert

what i wanted to have is:

• Bülach vert

when i use exact same sourcecode in IRB, i actually get this ‘ü’ instead of ‘ü’.

i really dont know what to do here.

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my Gemfile:

cat Gemfile

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.1.0'
gem 'mysql2'
gem 'haml'
gem 'activerecord', :require => "active_record"
gem 'xml-simple'
gem 'hpricot'

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ruby -v:
ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-linux]

i`d be happy with any idea.

Note: i echo these values before!! i store them into a model, so i guess that its not a sql-related issue – however, db-encoding is utf8 too.

any idea? Thanks!

thanks to the helpers! 🙂

Answer 1

i found that irb does use Syck, rails Psych.
so i guess this is the main difference… will research more..

SOLUTION:

 require 'yaml'
 YAML::ENGINE.yamler= 'syck'

into boot.rb and BAM!