Hunting down spooky JSON module redefinition via Oj

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    There was no specific place that was causing issues; it seemed to me whenever we were making a request via the client we had set up to hit an external API. Taking a quick trip to the issues for the project turned up an issue that looked suspiciously similar but with no actual outcome at the end of the thread barring some workarounds.

  • Oj

    Optimized JSON

    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.

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  • Blueprinter

    Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby

    In a happy coincidence, we're knee-deep in the middle of a migration of our serialisers to use Blueprinter instead of AMS. One benefit, in this case, is that it lets you explicitly set what generator you're using, like so:

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