class RuboCop::ConfigLoader

def load_yaml_configuration(absolute_path)
  yaml_code = IO.read(absolute_path)
  # At one time, there was a problem with the psych YAML engine under
  # Ruby 1.9.3. YAML.load_file would crash when reading empty .yml files
  # or files that only contained comments and blank lines. This problem
  # is not possible to reproduce now, but we want to avoid it in case
  # it's still there. So we only load the YAML code if we find some real
  # code in there.
  hash = yaml_code =~ /^[A-Z]/i ? yaml_safe_load(yaml_code) : {}
  puts "configuration from #{absolute_path}" if debug?
  unless hash.is_a?(Hash)
    fail(TypeError, "Malformed configuration in #{absolute_path}")
  end
  hash
end