[chef] Chef and Rails incompatibility because of JSON gem

[Ketan Padegaonkar < >]

We're looking to embed chef inside of a rails 3.2.x app, and are running into incompatibility issues with the JSON gem.

Chef very rigorously requires json (<= 1.6.1, >= 1.4.4) which is incompatible with what most other gems used in the rails eco-system use. Not to mention that this is gem is over a year old. I've had to go back as far as chef 0.8.10 to satisfy this json dependency.

Is there a known issue that is preventing chef to upgrading to a newer JSON gem, or just use yajl-ruby gem?

- Ketan