hoe 2.9.1's rake package fails with the following error:

undefined method `write' for
#<Syck::Emitter:0x00000100919d48>

Related to RubyGems bug #28907: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=575&aid=28907&group_id=126

In the above thread, Eric Hodel says:

"Yes, you are loading syck (require 'yaml') before psych (require
'psych'):

https://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler/blob/master/lib/rake/
baseextensiontask.rb

This is not supported.

A patch will be sent to rake-compiler.

You can work around this by requiring psych before rake-compiler."


If this is *really* the case, then hoe needs to do the same:

diff --git i/lib/hoe.rb w/lib/hoe.rb
index efac489..771cb25 100644
--- i/lib/hoe.rb
+++ w/lib/hoe.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 require 'rake/testtask'
+
+begin
+  require 'psych'
+rescue ::LoadError
+end
+
 require 'yaml'
 
 require 'hoe/rake'

Date: 2011-08-12 23:19
Sender: Ryan Davis

Thanks Leonard... much appreciated.

Date: 2011-08-12 23:18
Sender: Ryan Davis

Roger, that's not relevant at all... Please don't litter my projects
with your random musings.

Date: 2011-03-10 01:01
Sender: Roger Pack

as a note, I get weird stuff like this when I build with 1.9.2
and jeweler:

   s.add_development_dependency(%q<active_support>,
["#<YAML::Syck::DefaultKey:0x7f01ada82158>
2.3.10"])

hmm