* 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, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
index 0d4c75d272..1949ce0ad3 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/time_with_zone.rb
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
     #   # With ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format = false
     #   Time.utc(2005,2,1,15,15,10).in_time_zone.to_json
     #   # => "2005/02/01 15:15:10 +0000"
-    def to_json(options = nil)
+    def rails_to_json(options = nil)
       if !ActiveSupport.respond_to?(:use_standard_json_time_format) || ActiveSupport.use_standard_json_time_format
         xmlschema.inspect
       else
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ module ActiveSupport
       end
     end
 
+    alias to_json rails_to_json
+
     def to_yaml(options = {})
       if options.kind_of?(YAML::Emitter)
         utc.to_yaml(options)