We had previously talked about the Serialization formats and How Serialization is implemented for storing objects in the relational database in the first two parts of the blog series. This article focuses on the various Serializers that prepare and construct API transferable data in Ruby on Rails.

It was the day we were moving. I was observing how the "Packers and Movers" professionals packed our furniture. For example, the King size bed shown below had to be accommodated within a space of about 6-7 inches inside a van. While I kept wondering how they'd manage this, they dismantled the bed. And in went the camel through the needle's eye very neatly. That's when I realized the computing world is not very different from the real world. They dismantled the bed for transportation and then reassembled at the destination. Similarly, in the computing world, we deconstruct objects or

We recently upgraded one of our app to Ruby 2.2.2 Bundle installed failed ...... crying about well known issue of Error installing gem with native extension, but this time for Gem json -v 1.8.3 Detailed error shows Fetching: json-1.8.3.gem (100%) Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing json: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.2/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20151209-13741-vqcxt1.rb extconf.rb creating Makefile make "DESTDIR=" clean make "DESTDIR=" compiling generator.c linking shared-object json/ext/generator.so /usr/