DelayedJob: “Job failed to load: uninitialized constant Syck::Syck”

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.1 and the DelayedJob gem. I have a Contact Us form through which people can contact me. When I submit that I get the following error

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Answer 1

Syck is a Yaml parser, so maybe you have an error in one of your Yaml files? Locale files or your database.yml are good bets.

Failing that, make sure that the yaml parser is using the correct yamler by adding the following to boot.rb:

require 'yaml'
YAML::ENGINE.yamler= 'syck'

Answer 2

I wrote a post about it.

http://www.kensodev.com/2011/08/16/uninitialized-constant-sycksyck-nameerror/