Bug #8303: YAML does not persist Exception#backtrace

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin12.2.0]

[josh.cheek (Josh Cheek)]

require 'yaml'

begin
raise "omg"
rescue

yaml loses the backtrace

YAML.load(YAML.dump $!).backtrace # => nil

marshal persists the backtrace

Marshal.load(Marshal.dump $!).backtrace # => ["-:4:in `'"]

end

[ayumin (Ayumu AIZAWA)]

• Category set to ext
• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)

[tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• Backport deleted (1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN)

This is fixed here: https://github.com/ruby/psych/pull/382