Re: [MacRuby-devel] strings to yaml

2009-04-17 Thread John Shea
Hi Eloy, I was doing: "#{field.stringValue}".to_yaml which in 6 months time i will be scratching my head wondering why - so your suggestions are very helpful - thanks! Cheers, J On Apr 17, 2009, at 15:31 , Eloy Duran wrote: Hey John, I think we'll need to move the to_yaml definition for

Re: [MacRuby-devel] strings to yaml

2009-04-17 Thread Eloy Duran
Hey John, I think we'll need to move the to_yaml definition for String into NSString in the MacRuby case. I tried to do that as an example [1], but it seems that NSString completely breaks after opening the class, but this is probably just a bug in 0.4: "--- foo\n" "--- !str:NSString foo\

[MacRuby-devel] strings to yaml

2009-04-17 Thread John Shea
Hello everyone, I notice that NSMutableString nicely turns into a plain string when you #to_yaml it. Thats great since plays nicely with other ruby code. NSString however becomes "!str:NSString" - is that by design? It would not matter to me except that #stringValue from NSTe