Unable to compile the json gem on production machines

[scottybrisbane]

I am wanting to use this library with Puppet, but we don't want to have to compile native extensions on our production machines before puppet can run. This is currently required for us to use diplomat, because of the dependency on the json gem.

Would it be possible to move to using json_pure instead?

[taharah]

This is something I can look into. My company is a large Chef consumer, so I've never ran into this issue before, and I believe JSON is installed by default with newer versions of Ruby (>= 2.3).

[EugenMayer]

even if you use Chef (chef user myself), this is an issue on all boxes, all docker containers and is usually creating a huge overkill.

json_pure works pretty solid in those cases