Ruby objects and JSON serialization (without Rails)

Question

I\'m trying to understand the JSON serialization landscape in Ruby. I\'m new to Ruby.

Is there any good JSON serialization options if you are not working with Rails?

Answer 1

If rendering performance is critical, you might also want to look at yajl-ruby, which is a binding to the C yajl library. The serialization API for that one looks like:

require 'yajl'
Yajl::Encoder.encode({"foo" => "bar"}) #=> "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"