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-rw-r--r--ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb2
-rw-r--r--test/psych/test_string.rb13
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
index 05748dd81c..2eee4d3457 100644
--- a/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
+++ b/ext/psych/lib/psych/visitors/yaml_tree.rb
@@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ module Psych
tag = 'tag:yaml.org,2002:str'
plain = false
quote = false
+ elsif o == 'y' || o == 'n'
+ style = Nodes::Scalar::DOUBLE_QUOTED
elsif @line_width && o.length > @line_width
style = Nodes::Scalar::FOLDED
elsif o =~ /^[^[:word:]][^"]*$/
diff --git a/test/psych/test_string.rb b/test/psych/test_string.rb
index 20ab79c05a..0dc34b3083 100644
--- a/test/psych/test_string.rb
+++ b/test/psych/test_string.rb
@@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ module Psych
end
end
+ # 'y' and 'n' are kind of ambiguous. Syck treated y and n literals in
+ # YAML documents as strings. But this is not what the YAML 1.1 spec says.
+ # YAML 1.1 says they should be treated as booleans. When we're dumping
+ # documents, we know it's a string, so adding quotes will eliminate the
+ # "ambiguity" in the emitted document
+ def test_y_is_quoted
+ assert_match(/"y"/, Psych.dump("y"))
+ end
+
+ def test_n_is_quoted
+ assert_match(/"n"/, Psych.dump("n"))
+ end
+
def test_string_with_newline
assert_equal "1\n2", Psych.load("--- ! '1\n\n 2'\n")
end