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

Jbuilder is a gem built by rails community. But it works well in non-rails environments and have a cool set of features.

# suppose we have a sample object as below
sampleObj.name #=> foo
sampleObj.last_name #=> bar

# using jbuilder we can convert it to json:
Jbuilder.encode do |json|
  json.name sampleObj.name
  json.last_name sampleObj.last_name
end #=> "{:\"name\" => \"foo\", :\"last_name\" => \"bar\"}"