Chris Oliver Chris Oliver

Undefined Method ‘write’ for Syck::Emitter

Oct 13, 2011

Yaml is awesome. One of the ruby parsers Yaml is named Syck. It’s awesome, but most of the time you’re not dealing with it directly. You install a gem and get an error regarding Syck, but its just a dependency of one of the gems.

In my case it was:

NoMethodError: undefined method `write' for #

The quick solution to this is to set your RUBYOPT environment variable:

RUBYOPT='-rpsych' bundle install

The reason behind this is that YAML automatically uses the older Syck library unless Psych is loaded before YAML.


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