Yeah! I am a Rails contributor!
In an application at work we are using a Rails REST application for the backend of the application and another Rails application as the frontend. The frontend application does not use the database at all but only the REST api provided by the backend application.
When sending lots of data between the two applications serializing to and from XML turned out to be a performance bottleneck. We turned to JSON and this improved performance significantly.
The JSON support in ActiveResource was added recently and there are still some areas where XML is better supported than JSON. So I submitted a patch to improve the JSON support. The patch got submitted to trunk in this changeset.
It feels really good to contribute back to Rails when Rails have brought me so many hours of joy 
0 Responses to “My first Rails Contribution”
Leave a Reply