diff --git a/Yesod/Resource.hs b/Yesod/Resource.hs
index 6a77c233..ad28b3cf 100644
--- a/Yesod/Resource.hs
+++ b/Yesod/Resource.hs
@@ -216,8 +216,6 @@ data RPNode = RPNode RP VerbMap
     deriving (Show, Eq)
 data VerbMap = AllVerbs String | Verbs [(Verb, String)]
     deriving (Show, Eq)
-instance ConvertAttempt YamlDoc [RPNode] where
-    convertAttempt = fromTextObject <=< ca
 instance ConvertAttempt TextObject [RPNode] where
     convertAttempt = mapM helper <=< fromMapping where
         helper :: (Text, TextObject) -> Attempt RPNode
@@ -384,7 +382,7 @@ liftVerbMap (Verbs vs) r rp = do
 
 strToExp :: Bool -> String -> Q Exp
 strToExp toCheck s = do
-    rpnodes <- runIO $ convertAttemptWrap $ YamlDoc $ cs s
+    rpnodes <- runIO $ decode (cs s) >>= \to -> convertAttemptWrap (to :: TextObject)
     (if toCheck then rpnodesTHCheck else rpnodesTH) rpnodes
 
 #if TEST
diff --git a/yesod.cabal b/yesod.cabal
index a6e4ff0f..57dfd552 100644
--- a/yesod.cabal
+++ b/yesod.cabal
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ library
                      bytestring >= 0.9.1.4 && < 0.10,
                      web-encodings >= 0.2.0 && < 0.3,
                      data-object >= 0.2.0 && < 0.3,
-                     data-object-yaml >= 0.0.0 && < 0.1,
+                     data-object-yaml >= 0.2.0 && < 0.3,
                      directory >= 1 && < 1.1,
                      transformers >= 0.1.4.0 && < 0.2,
                      control-monad-attempt >= 0.0.0 && < 0.1,