Jira (PUP-2187) Puppet Gem modifies behavior of Class.to_yaml method

[Charlie Sharpsteen (JIRA)]

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Charlie Sharpsteen commented on an issue   Re: Puppet Gem modifies behavior of Class.to_yaml method For historical reasons, Puppet vendors the ZAML library and configures it as the serialization method for to_yaml. This does change the output with respect to the Syck and Psych libraries used by the Ruby standard library. We hope to remove this behavior in Puppet 4 (PUP-1019). Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2187 Puppet Gem modifies behavior of Class.to_yaml method Can someone please explain this behavior? I couldn't find any features in the Puppet documentation that would explain why something like this would be going on. Looks like a bug: <pre> irb(main):001:0> class Foo; end => nil irb(main):002:0> require 'yaml' => true irb(main):003:0> Foo.to_yaml => "--- !ruby/class 'Foo'\n" irb(main):004:0> require ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.