Bug #13430: JSON.parse(nil.to_json) throws exception.

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.3.4p301 (2017-03-30 revision 58214) [x86_64-darwin16]
• Backport: 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN

[ruby-has-bugs (John McMack)]

Perhaps JSON.parse("null") should return nil instead of throwing an exception. That's just stupid.

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

I believe recent version (>= 2.0.0 maybe?) of that library does accept "null" and renders nil. Try upgrading your library.