Ruby on Rails

On Jul 29, 9:25 am, Michael José <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Well, the matter is quite complicated in fact. And I can't happen to
> make render :json work for it does not render everything in an object
> (at least, not something you add via instance_variable_set.
>
> I have an object.
> This object is joint with another object.
> The two should be rendered in the same json object, but I figured that
> would not be possible, so I rendered an array, containing themselves an
> array with the first and the second object.
> In some case, some objects have children : I'd like to render the array
> of children in the same fashion (right after the object it concerns).
>
> I can't think of a way to make that work without using a view.

You may not be able to make render :json => my_active_record_object
work, but (by definition) any piece of json is just a combination of
hashes, arrays, strings, numbers etc. Build up that hash in ruby, call
to_json on it and you should be away.

Fred
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