# YAML is sensitive to space character?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-is-sensitive-to-space-character/159130>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 1, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-is-sensitive-to-space-character/159130 "2009-02-01T01:10:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![kedarmhaswade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/5fc32e/32.png) [@kedarmhaswade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kedarmhaswade)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/yaml-is-sensitive-to-space-character/159130/1 "2009-02-01T01:10:16Z")

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I ran script/generate model Book and I got:  
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load': syntax error on line 23, col 2: ` socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (ArgumentError)  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:819:in `database\_configuration’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:391:in  
`initialize_database' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:139:in `process’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:112:in  
`send' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/initializer.rb:112:in `run’  
from /home/kedar/Projects/ror/people/config/environment.rb:13  
from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in  
`gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’  
from  
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.2.2/lib/commands/generate.rb:1  
from /usr/local/lib/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:31:in  
`gem_original_require' from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’  
from script/generate:3

then I realized that I had mistakenly had an entry password:secret  
instead of password: secret in database.yml.

Is database.yaml so sensitive to a space character? I couldn’t ascertain  
it by looking at [YAML Reference Card](http://www.yaml.org/refcard.html).

-Kedar