Hello, What’s your favorite datafile format? Awesome YAML or Awesome JSON (What’s Next)? I prefer good ol’ INI ;-) that’s why I published a new iniparser gem to read / parse INI configuration, settings and data files into a hash. Use $ h = INI.load_file( 'planet.ini' ); pp h. Cheers. PS: What’s INI? See the planet.ini as a “real-world” example.