$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../..') $LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../lib') require 'yajl' obj = { :a_test => "of encoding directly to an IO stream", :which_will => "simply return a string when finished", :as_easy_as => 123 } Yajl::Encoder.encode(obj, STDOUT)