Add OJ gem for faster json encoding and decoding

Gemfile

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ gem "faraday", "~> 2.9"
 gem "faraday_middleware-aws-sigv4", "~> 0.3.0"
 gem "faraday-excon"
 gem "uuid", "~> 2.3", ">= 2.3.9"
+gem "oj", "~> 3.16", ">= 3.16.11"
 
 # This gem will allow us to write tests without the need for a database
 gem "activerecord-nulldb-adapter", "~> 1.1", ">= 1.1.1"

Gemfile.lock

@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ GEM
       racc (~> 1.4)
     nokogiri (1.18.3-x86_64-linux-gnu)
       racc (~> 1.4)
+    oj (3.16.11)
+      bigdecimal (>= 3.0)
+      ostruct (>= 0.2)
+    ostruct (0.6.1)
     parallel (1.26.3)
     parser (3.3.7.1)
       ast (~> 2.4.1)
@@ -401,6 +405,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   logstash-event (~> 1.2, >= 1.2.02)
   logstash-logger (~> 0.26.1)
   mysql2 (~> 0.5.3)
+  oj (~> 3.16, >= 3.16.11)
   rack-cors
   rails (~> 7.1.3, >= 7.1.3.2)
   rspec-rails (~> 7.0.0)

config/initializers/oj.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require "oj"
+
+# Sets Oj as the default encoder and decoder for JSON in Rails.
+Oj.optimize_rails