Question: I have a list of accounts I want to save as a YAML file and load it into ruby. Something like this:

> 
> 
> ```
> Account1
>   John Smith
>   jsmith
>   jsmith@gmail.com
> Account2
>   John Doe
>   jdoe
>   jdoe@hotmail.com
> 
> ```
> 
> 

Then I want to get the email address of the person with the name of "John Doe" (for example).

How do I do this?

Answer: 
Here, you save your yaml objects as Person objects and then when you load them back, they will load into Person objects, making them a lot easier to handle.

First change tweak your yaml file to something like this:

```
--- 
- !ruby/object:Person 
  name: John Doe
  sname: jdoe
  email: jdoe@gmail.com
- !ruby/object:Person 
  name: Jane Doe
  sname: jdoe
  email: jane@hotmail.com

```

Now you can load your yaml file into an array of Person objects and then manipulate the array:

```
FILENAME = 'data.yaml'

class Person 
 attr_accessor :name, :sname, :email
end

require "yaml"
# Will return an array of Person objects.
data = YAML::load(File.open(FILENAME))

# Will print out the first object in the array's name. #=> John Doe
puts data.first.name

```
You just say `require yaml` at the top of your file.

Objects get a `to_yaml` method when you do this. Loading of yaml files is easy to.. Refer to the docs here. 
<http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/doc/>