Unable to save values to gon in rails 8

[ldanielw1]

On ruby 3.4.1 and rails 8. Gon is version 6.4.0

When I do something like:

gon.a = 1
puts gon.a

I see that gon.a is still nil. Trying gon.all_variables also returned an empty hash.

Is this because of the version of ruby / gon...?