error with rake generate about octopress HOT 17 CLOSED

Please, give us the full trace log by running rake -t generate.

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Just to be sure that it's not one of your config files causing the traceback, or psych itself.

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its the psych issue,i change the yaml parser and it runs no problem now

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I'm having the same problem. Mac OS X 10.7

/Users/irae/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in `parse': couldn't parse YAML at line 2 column 44 (Psych::SyntaxError)
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in `parse_stream'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:119:in `parse'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:106:in `load'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/convertible.rb:33:in `read_yaml'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/post.rb:39:in `initialize'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:163:in `new'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:163:in `block in read_posts'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:161:in `each'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:161:in `read_posts'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:128:in `read_directories'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:98:in `read'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:38:in `process'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/bin/jekyll:250:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/jekyll:19:in `load'
    from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/jekyll:19:in `<main>'

How can I change the yaml parser?

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sorry, you can find answer here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4980877/rails-error-couldnt-parse-yaml

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:03 AM, irae <
[email protected]>wrote:

I'm having the same problem. Mac OS X 10.7

/Users/irae/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in
parse': couldn't parse YAML at line 2 column 44 (Psych::SyntaxError) from /Users/irae/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in parse_stream'
from
/Users/irae/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:119:in
parse' from /Users/irae/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:106:in load'
from
/Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/convertible.rb:33:in
read_yaml' from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/post.rb:39:in initialize'
from
/Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:163:in
new' from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:163:in block in read_posts'
from
/Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:161:in
each' from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:161:in read_posts'
from
/Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:128:in
read_directories' from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:98:in read'
from
/Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/lib/jekyll/site.rb:38:in
process' from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/jekyll-0.11.0/bin/jekyll:250:in <top (required)>'
from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/jekyll:19:in load' from /Users/irae/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/jekyll:19:in

'

How can I change the yaml parser?

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I have exactly the same problem but couldn't find out how to change the YAML default parser. The thread from SO looks specific to RoR. Where is config/boot.rb in the case of Octopress?

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As I understand, this is a problem inside one of the gems. Since the purpose of octopress is an easier way to use jekyll, I think this issue should be reopened. I don't have the necessary skill do dig into the problem and propose a patch to the specific gem. In the stack overflow thread some comment even mention this to be a problem in bundler.

Can someone change the Gemfile or something in a way that this works out of the box, as expected?

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It's now working for me properly. In my case it was a problem coming from ZSH syntax, I was not escaping the square brackets properly when creating a new blog post with rake. The syntax error could be more informative though.

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Now I understand what was going on. Each begin of a post is a little YAML. This was not clear to me. I wasn't creating the post with the commandline, I was trying to import from tumblr. The file was entirely alright and in UTF-8. It was breaking with an "em dash" (—), witch in fixed width fonts is almost the same as "en dash" (–) or an hyphen (-). That's why I wasn't able to find the problem.

I'll dig into this further later, but may be it's a new issue entirely. Thanks for pointing that out, @jdnavarro.

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i found that when I was initially editing the ymf config file I didn't have a space after the ':' this fixes the parsing error

fails:
twitter_user:nikburns
ok:
twitter_user: nikburns

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Thanks @Burnsoft! I ran into the same issue, followed your advice and it works now!

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Thanks @Burnsoft ,I 'm too

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Thanks @Burnsoft that did the trick for me, too!

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Thanks @Burnsoft

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Thanks @Burnsoft, i had the same issue

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i've gote the same issue with author: in the _config.yml file.
i put an @ like this :

author: @Myname

without the @, it's ok.

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Thank you @Burnsoft ! That's the point! Everything works now. (^O^)/

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