* Add pluggable JSON backends with support for the JSON gem. [rick]

    Example: ActiveSupport::JSON.backend = "JSONGem"

  All internal Rails JSON encoding is now handled by ActiveSupport::JSON.encode().  Use of #to_json is not recommended, as it may clash with other libraries that overwrite it.  However, you can recover Rails specific functionality
  if you really want to use #to_json.

    gem 'json'
    ActiveSupport::JSON.backend = "JSONGem"

    class ActiveRecord::Base
      alias to_json rails_to_json
    end

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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/backends/jsongem.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/backends/jsongem.rb
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+module ActiveSupport
+  module JSON
+    ParseError = ::JSON::ParserError
+
+    module Backends
+      module JSONGem
+        extend self
+
+        # Converts a JSON string into a Ruby object.
+        def decode(json)
+          data = ::JSON.parse(json)
+          if ActiveSupport.parse_json_times
+            convert_dates_from(data)
+          else
+            data
+          end
+        end
+
+      private
+        def convert_dates_from(data)
+          case data
+            when DATE_REGEX
+              DateTime.parse(data)
+            when Array
+              data.map! { |d| convert_dates_from(d) }
+            when Hash
+              data.each do |key, value|
+                data[key] = convert_dates_from(value)
+              end
+            else data
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
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