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brianmario/yajl-ruby

A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl) observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby · homepage · C · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

59/100

  • Activity 59
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 6344
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 249
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1490 stars · 179 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby gem providing C bindings to the YAJL library for streaming JSON parsing and encoding. It supports parsing directly from IO streams (files, sockets, compressed streams) and offers a drop-in replacement API for the standard JSON gem with significantly better performance.

Use cases

  • parse large JSON files without loading them fully into memory
  • stream-parse multiple JSON objects from a socket or HTTP response
  • replace the Ruby JSON gem with a faster drop-in alternative
  • parse gzip or bzip2 compressed JSON streams
  • incrementally feed JSON chunks to a parser in an evented server
  • encode Ruby objects to JSON faster than JSON.generate

When to avoid

  • you only need simple, occasional JSON parsing where the stdlib JSON gem suffices
  • you need a pure-Ruby solution without native C extensions
  • your project no longer uses Ruby

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

serialization parser http-client developer-tools apis ruby cross-platform json streaming c-extension ruby-gem performance data-engineering

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
brianmario/yajl-rubymain59

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