When I read this, I didn't believe it. I needed to prove this to myself!

I've seen and used YAML files for configurations in many places and I've always found editing YAML files by hand too much of a pain. It's very easy to miss a space and screw everything up. However, writing JSON directly into a plain text file is totally easy.

So, I created a normal text file named 'array_of_objects.json' like this -

  [
   {
    "first": "one"
   },
   {
    "second": "two"
   }
  ]

And then I wrote a ruby program to read it -

  require 'json'
  require 'yaml'
  
  array_of_objects = YAML.load_file 'array_of_objects.json'
  p array_of_objects

And I see the output as -

  [{"first"=>"one"}, {"second"=>"two"}]

I still can't get over it. I'm thinking of the countless hours wasted!!

Thank you so much.