Writing data into yml file in a particular format

Rails
1

Hi,

I have a hash in a controller file which I have to write into a YAML.yml
file in a particular format.

This is the code I am using in the controller to write to yml file.

“File.open(“config/locales/output.yml”, “w”) {|f|
f.write(hash_data.to_yaml) }”

output.yml is the yml file.
hash_data is my hash which has a key having a hash to array of values.

Current output;

‘01’:

  • red
  • green

Expected output:
en:
01: “red, green”

Is this possible?

Regards,
Nikhil

2

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:37 AM, nikhil rn [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

Hi,

hash_data is my hash which has a key having a hash to array of values.
01: “red, green”

Is this possible?

You could convert your array to a string before to call .to_yaml: [
‘red’,
‘green’ ].join(', ')

Cheers,
Nico

3

On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:37:23 UTC-5, Ruby-Forum.com User
wrote:

Expected output:
en:
01: “red, green”

It’s certainly possible, but if you want the output YAML to look like
that
you’re going to need to put the input data into the same sort of
format.
For instance, running the expected output (with quotes around 01, to
avoid
it being parsed as an integer) through YAML.load gives this Ruby result:

{“en”=>{“01”=>“red, green”}}

–Matt J.