Add ActiveSupport::JSON and Object#to_json for converting Ruby objects to JSON strings

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@3356 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/iterators.rb
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+require 'strscan'
+
+module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
+  module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
+    module String #:nodoc:
+      # Custom string iterators
+      module Iterators
+        # Yields a single-character string for each character in the string.
+        # When $KCODE = 'UTF8', multi-byte characters are yielded appropriately.
+        def each_char
+          scanner, char = StringScanner.new(self), /./mu
+          loop { yield(scanner.scan(char) || break) }
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end