# Does YAML::Syck::MergeKey have to\_sym? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [December 26, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-yaml-mergekey-have-to-sym/80408 "2006-12-26T07:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dean)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-yaml-mergekey-have-to-sym/80408/1 "2006-12-26T07:51:08Z")
Hi, I have a stock gentoo ruby/rails installation and am running into an error with YAML::Syck::MergeKey. 0 wicked www/ror % ruby --version ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-04 patchlevel 2) [i686-linux] (gentoo ebuild 1.8.5\_p2) 0 wicked www/ror % rails --version Rails 1.1.6 Some bits of rails are trying to call to\_sym on a YAML::Sycn::MergeKey object: 0 wicked www/ror % ./script/console Loading development environment. ./script/…/config/…/config/…/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/…/…/activesupport/lib/active\_support/core\_ext/hash/keys.rb:27:in `symbolize_keys':NoMethodError: undefined method`to\_sym’ for #YAML::Syck::MergeKey:0xb7348318 Is this object supposed to have a to\_sym? Looks like it might be happening when script/console tries to read my config/database.yml. Regards, –Dean