# Escaping colons in YAML

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/escaping-colons-in-yaml/19043>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [October 8, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/escaping-colons-in-yaml/19043 "2007-10-08T19:42:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mel\_Riffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Mel\_Riffe](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Mel_Riffe)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/escaping-colons-in-yaml/19043/1 "2007-10-08T19:42:52Z")

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Not sure if this will work, but isn’t YAML processed by ERB? Could you use something like:

\<%= “[8.11.32.120:8000](http://8.11.32.120:8000)” %\>: GoogleMapsKeyforThisDomain

–Mel