JSON library for Ruby

It can be easily extended to serialize/deserialize arbitrary Ruby objects, and also includes a GTK2 GUI editor for JSON.

The Ruby JSON library is an implementation of the official JSON specification (RFC 4627).

What is new in this release:

• Some performance improvements.
• Fix to avoid mutation of JSON.dump_default_options.
• Fixing space_before accessor in generator.
• Performance on JRuby improvemed.
• Some fixes to be compatible with the new Ruby 2.2.

What is new in version 1.8.2:

• Some performance improvements.
• Fix to avoid mutation of JSON.dump_default_options.
• Fixing space_before accessor in generator.
• Performance on JRuby improvemed.
• Some fixes to be compatible with the new Ruby 2.2.

What is new in version 1.8.1:

• Remove Rubinius exception since transcoding should be working now.

What is new in version 1.8.0:

• Applied patches by Yui NARUSE <naruse@airemix.jp> to suppress warning with -Wchar-subscripts and better validate UTF-8 strings.
• Applied patch by ginriki@github to remove unnecessary if.
• Added load/dump interface to JSON::GenericObject to make serialize :some_attribute, JSON::GenericObject work in Rails active models for convenient SomeModel#some_attribute.foo.bar access to serialised JSON data.

What is new in version 1.7.7:

• Added license information to rubygems spec data.
• Improved documentation.

What is new in version 1.7.6:

• Added GeneratorState#merge alias for JRuby, fix state accessor methods.

What is new in version 1.7.5:

• Fixed compilation of extension on older Ruby versions.

What is new in version 1.7.4:

• Fixed compilation problem on AIX.

What is new in version 1.7.3:

• Work around Rubinius encoding issues using iconv for conversion instead.

What is new in version 1.7.1:

• Some small fixes for building.