# Back porting rails 2 json serialization **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 21, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/back-porting-rails-2-json-serialization/117853 "2007-10-21T16:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![willbailey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@willbailey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willbailey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/back-porting-rails-2-json-serialization/117853/1 "2007-10-21T16:31:29Z")
I’m working on a project with a large json api component. We are not ready to upgrade to rails 2 at this point; however, I was wondering if anybody had thought about backporting the rails 2 json serialization back to 1.2.x. I created a quick plugin this morning just of the ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport files involved in the rails 2 json serialization and it seems to work. Has anybody else considered doing this or know of a reason why it might be problematic? Thanks! Will ---
**Author:** ![willbailey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@willbailey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willbailey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/back-porting-rails-2-json-serialization/117853/2 "2007-10-21T18:53:10Z")
Before proper json support was added to the rails trunk, I was using the jsonifier plugin. It worked fine, except with serializing datetimes (but I think that was a problem with rails) ---
**Author:** ![willbailey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@willbailey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willbailey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/back-porting-rails-2-json-serialization/117853/3 "2007-10-22T19:26:14Z")
does JSONifier support serialization of included associations and instance methods as the rails 2 code serializer does?