YPath library

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Hello Gabe!

I have been desperately looking for a YPath implementation I can use with Ruby 1.9 ever since Psych went mainstream, but without avail. Today I came across your YTools project, which finally give me some hope.

So a couple of things:

1. How hard would it be to integrate your YPath code with Psych? I worked with your library for a bit, and see that it can be used to select the data nodes, but I wondering how feasible it would be to get it to provide Psych Node objects instead.

2. If that is feasible, would you be up for spinning the YPath code off as a separate project?

The lack of YPath library is really a glaring hole in the Ruby ecosystem. Ultimately a solution has to be developed. See the work that you've accomplished on this thus far I hope you will be interested in seeing that happen.

P.S. I have a "YAML tools" project too, called YC (http://rubyworks.github.com/yc).

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I would probably be fine with trying to integrate it. Just perusing the
Psych code, I really don't yet have a sense of how much work that might
actually be. That would be a fairly significant reading experiment, though
something I'd be willing to do.

I think perhaps a bigger question is how open Aaron Patterson would be to
that kind of change. I would want to get some feedback on that before
committing to it. I'll send him a message.

-Gabe

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wrote:

Hello Gabe!

I have been desperately looking for a YPath implementation I can use with
Ruby 1.9 ever since Psych went mainstream, but without avail. Today I came
across your YTools project, which finally give me some hope.

So a couple of things:

1. How hard would it be to integrate your YPath code with Psych? I worked
   with your library for a bit, and see that it can be used to select the data
   nodes, but I wondering how feasible it would be to get it to provide Psych
   Node objects instead.

2. If that is feasible, would you be up for spinning the YPath code off as
   a separate project?

The lack of YPath library is really a glaring hole in the Ruby ecosystem.
Ultimately a solution has to be developed. See the work that you've
accomplished on this thus far I hope you will be interested in seeing that
happen.

P.S. I have a "YAML tools" project too, called YC (
http://rubyworks.github.com/yc).

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Even if he's against adding it directly to Psych, it would be useful as a separate "extension" gem.