Re: Rails 2.3-stable killed to_json

Hongli Lai
Fri, 29 May 2009 09:51:19 -0000

On May 28, 11:13 am, Mislav Marohnić <mislav.maroh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I bumped Rails 2.3-stable branch in our app today and deployed, thinking
I''m
> being a good developer by getting all the bugfixes this way.
> What I actually did is broke many aspects of our app because all `to_json`
> calls now return "{}" (hardcoded).
>
> Both ways to solve this require changing my code:
>
>    1. follow the instructions in the
>
commit<http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/d052e9fb5868a10df33a84bf61f40a32...>;
>    or
>    2. change all `to_json` calls to `rails_to_json`.
>
> Now, I''ve been following the talk about ActiveSupport
incompatibility with
> the JSON gem. I''m not interesting in raising those issues again. I
want to
> know why was such thing backported — without warning — breaking backwards
> compatibility?

I think this was fixed in a commit a few days ago.