# Is this a YAML problem, and How do I fix it?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-this-a-yaml-problem-and-how-do-i-fix-it/142146>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 3, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-this-a-yaml-problem-and-how-do-i-fix-it/142146 "2008-07-03T21:09:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-this-a-yaml-problem-and-how-do-i-fix-it/142146/1 "2008-07-03T21:09:53Z")

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I was doing my merry thing, slowly learning ralis by doing some  
tutorials, and then this happened:

=\> Ctrl-C to shutdown server  
\*\* Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000  
\*\* Starting Rails with development environment…  
Exiting  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in  
`load': syntax er' (ArgumentError)l 0:`test:

I’ve checked my database.yml file, and it seems OK -

Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-this-a-yaml-problem-and-how-do-i-fix-it/142146/2 "2008-07-03T21:36:05Z")

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brain fart -  
I forgot about a username/pword YML file I had buried - fixed the code  
loading into it so it puts TWO spaces at new lines - and now I’m  
treating myself to an IceCream.