From 27c9774d1b4859ee4ee83743aa0dfa8bc9c7923c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charlie Somerville <charlie@charliesomerville.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 15:55:25 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] prefer JSON, but fall back to YAML if JSON isn't available

---
 lib/linguist/samples.rb | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/linguist/samples.rb b/lib/linguist/samples.rb
index 89f5a718..c623d7d5 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/samples.rb
+++ b/lib/linguist/samples.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-require 'json'
+begin
+  require 'json'
+rescue LoadError
+  require 'yaml'
+end
 
 require 'linguist/md5'
 require 'linguist/classifier'
@@ -14,7 +18,8 @@ module Linguist
 
     # Hash of serialized samples object
     if File.exist?(PATH)
-      DATA = JSON.load(File.read(PATH))
+      serializer = defined?(JSON) ? JSON : YAML
+      DATA = serializer.load(File.read(PATH))
     end
 
     # Public: Iterate over each sample.