I''ve been googling for a while to find a solution to this, but can''t seem to. What''s happening is that after upgrading from rails 2.1 to rails 2.3, my YAML started getting, for lack of a better word, ''evil'' due to the introduction of the SafeBuffer class. I thought SafeBuffer was related to ERB implementation only but it seems to have affected the output generated by .to_yaml, causing clients that want to parse this yaml to choke (not knowing anything about SafeBuffers). Grepping rails source for SafeBuffer I see nothing that could affect the yaml class...so it seems the safebuffer This is what an evil-ized safebuffered yaml looks like (just a piece of it) BAD/EVIL: somevalue: !str str: "yes" "@_rails_html_safe": false GOOD (before safebuffers) somevalue: yes Any ideas greatly appreciated! Yan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.