Ox vs Oj

Ox

Ruby Optimized XML Parser (by ohler55)

#Parsers #HTML/XML Parsing

Source Code

ohler.com

Oj

Optimized JSON (by ohler55)

#Parsers #json-parser #JSON #Ruby #C #oj-gem #ruby-json-parser #Marshaller #Rails

Source Code

ohler.com

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Ox		Oj
	Project
1	Mentions	6
859	Stars	3,042
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
29 days ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
C	Language	C
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Ox

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Ox yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Oj

Posts with mentions or reviews of Oj. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.

Suggestions for how to reduce memory usage
2 projects | /r/rails | 24 Jan 2023

Install OJ if you render out JSON a lot
Oj VS jsonic - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 21 Nov 2022
Hunting down spooky JSON module redefinition via Oj
3 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2022

I knew that our app was using Oj for JSON serialisation. But I didn't initially notice anything spooky about pretty_generate. A colleague of mine (shoutout Iain) had keener eyes and pulled up the C file that dealt with something spooky sounding in mimic_json.c.
How to use oj with jb in Rails 6?
2 projects | /r/rails | 22 Apr 2021

Hello there, I am using Rails 6.1, I am accustomed to JBuilder, but in an attempt to increase the performance, I decided to use [jb](https://github.com/amatsuda/jb). How can I use [oj](https://github.com/ohler55/oj/) with jb?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ox and Oj you can also consider the following projects:

Nokogiri - Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby.

Oga - Oga is an XML/HTML parser written in Ruby.

Jb - A simple and fast JSON API template engine for Ruby on Rails

HappyMapper - Object to XML mapping library, using Nokogiri (Fork from John Nunemaker's Happymapper)

Sablon - Ruby Document Template Processor based on docx templates and Mail Merge fields.

HTML::Pipeline - HTML processing filters and utilities

TOML - Parse TOML. Like a bawss.

ROXML - ROXML is a module for binding Ruby classes to XML. It supports custom mapping and bidirectional marshalling between Ruby and XML using annotation-style class methods, via Nokogiri or LibXML.

raabro - a Ruby PEG parser library

Tomlrb - A Racc based TOML parser