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Diffstat (limited to 'activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object')
-rw-r--r-- | activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/to_json.rb | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/to_json.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/to_json.rb new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..14ef27340e --- /dev/null +++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/to_json.rb @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Hack to load json gem first so we can overwrite its to_json. +begin + require 'json' +rescue LoadError +end + +# The JSON gem adds a few modules to Ruby core classes containing :to_json definition, overwriting +# their default behavior. That said, we need to define the basic to_json method in all of them, +# otherwise they will always use to_json gem implementation, which is backwards incompatible in +# several cases (for instance, the JSON implementation for Hash does not work) with inheritance +# and consequently classes as ActiveSupport::OrderedHash cannot be serialized to json. +[Object, Array, FalseClass, Float, Hash, Integer, NilClass, String, TrueClass].each do |klass| + klass.class_eval <<-RUBY, __FILE__, __LINE__ + # Dumps object in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). See www.json.org for more info. + def to_json(options = nil) + ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(self, options) + end + RUBY +end |