Ruby on Rails

when i try this without quotes, all my javascript breaks.

On Jul 30, 10:47 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jul 30, 3:57 am,jdkealy<jdke...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > A date looks like Fri Jul 29 2011 22:54:08 GMT-0400 (EDT)
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> > When i select from my events table i run:
> > @member_calendars = Member::Calendar.find_by_sql("SELECT * from
> > calendars")
> > @json_calendar = ActiveSupport::JSON.encode(@member_calendars)
>
> > How can i get my dates into a format that works for this json object?
>
> Looks like that calendar plugin would be happy with iso8601 dates,
> which is what rails should generate by default when encoding dates as
> json
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> > Also, how would i pull my json object into the view so i can play with
> > it in javascript.
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> > The following code treats my json object as a string:
>
> >               var foo = '<%= @json_calendar %>';
>
> You asked for it to be a string - you've enclosed it in quotes
>
> Fred
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> >                 $.each(foo, function(i, item) {
> >                         alert(i);
> >                 });
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> > It will alert each and every character from my object

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