On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Kenneth Kalmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Michael Koziarski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > Just spotted a issue when using the json & activesupport gems in the
>> same
>> > project. Below is a simple irb session showing the effect:
>> >
>> > irb(main):001:0> require 'json'
>> > => true
>> > irb(main):002:0> Time.now.to_json( nil, 1 )
>> > => "\"Wed Nov 26 15:56:02 +0200 2008\""
>> > irb(main):003:0> require 'activesupport'
>> > => true
>> > irb(main):004:0> Time.now.to_json( nil, 1 )
>> > ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)
>> >         from (irb):4:in `to_json'
>> >         from (irb):4
>> >
>> > Searching through the json_pure-1.1.3 code it seems the #to_json
>> signature
>> > is "def to_json(*)", and in activesupport's Time it's def
>> to_json(options =
>> > nil). Looking through the other activesupport extensions for JSON it
>> seems
>> > to be the same case.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions? Any objections to me diving in and fixing it?
>>
>> What would the fix look like?   what are nil and 1 in the context above?
>>
>
> On the nil & 1, looking at line 237 in
> (/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/)json_pure-1.1.3/lib/json/pure/generator.rb
> you'll see this:
>
>   value.to_json(state, depth + 1)
>
> state can either be nil (as in my tests), or something unknown to me at
> this stage. And depth it seems is 0, so I tested with 0 + 1. This is inline
> with the json gems take on "def to_json(*a)".
>
> As for the fix, just changing the argument lists to use a bang parameter
> and then appropriate extracting what activesupport expects from the argument
> array...


Any thoughts on this? I added a simple fix to ruote (
http://tinyurl.com/6boobf) for Time#to_json and it works perfectly. I just
can't help but think more and more people would use ActiveSupport outside of
Rails, and especially in an environment where the JSON gem is present...

Best


-- 
Kenneth Kalmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://opensourcery.co.za

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