# Psych

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## Description

Psych is a YAML parser and emitter.  Psych leverages
[libyaml](http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML) for its YAML parsing and emitting
capabilities.  In addition to wrapping libyaml, Psych also knows how to
serialize and de-serialize most Ruby objects to and from the YAML format.

## Examples

    # Load YAML in to a Ruby object
    Psych.load('--- foo') # => 'foo'

    # Emit YAML from a Ruby object
    Psych.dump("foo")     # => "--- foo\n...\n"

## Dependencies

*   libyaml

## Installation

Psych has been included with MRI since 1.9.2, and is the default YAML parser
in 1.9.3.

If you want a newer gem release of Psych, you can use rubygems:

    gem install psych

In order to use the gem release in your app, and not the stdlib version,
you'll need the following:

    gem 'psych'
    require 'psych'

Or if you use Bundler add this to your `Gemfile`:

    gem 'psych'

JRuby ships with a pure Java implementation of Psych.

If you're on Rubinius, Psych is available in 1.9 mode, please refer to the
Language Modes section of the [Rubinius
README](https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius#readme) for more information on
building and 1.9 mode.

## License

Copyright 2009 Aaron Patterson, et al.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal
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