* 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

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb
index d87b880743..19b97d7b8c 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/hash.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class Hash
   # would pass the <tt>:include => :posts</tt> option to <tt>users</tt>,
   # allowing the posts association in the User model to be converted to JSON
   # as well.
-  def to_json(options = {}) #:nodoc:
+  def rails_to_json(options = {}) #:nodoc:
     hash_keys = self.keys
 
     if except = options[:except]
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ class Hash
 
     result = '{'
     result << hash_keys.map do |key|
-      "#{ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(key.to_s)}: #{ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(self[key], options)}"
-    end * ', '
+      "#{ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(key.to_s)}:#{ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(self[key], options)}"
+    end * ','
     result << '}'
   end
+
+  alias to_json rails_to_json
 end