Rails load YAML to hash and reference by symbol

Question

I am loading a YAML file in Rails 3.0.9 like this:

APP_CONFIG = YAML.load(File.read(File.expand_path(\'../app.yml\', __FILE__)))

It loads the a

Answer 1

There is another potential answer I discovered while digging around.

You can forgo HashWithIndifferentAccess.new by instead adding this to the top of your YAML files:

--- !map:HashWithIndifferentAccess

then simply YAML.load like normal. The only trick is that rails needs to already be loaded if you are doing this in your environment for use in initializers, etc. (like I am).