Ruby on Rails

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 22:12, Colin Law <cla...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 22:09, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 5:02:17 PM UTC-5, Colin Law wrote:
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> >> On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 21:56, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > Everything in the unparsed resonse body that I want is between [ and ] I have to gsub it out
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> >> No you don't.  After you get parsed_obj["results] (which is an array,
> >> that's what the [] mean) then you can get the first product by
> >> parsed_obj["results"][0]["productId"]
> >> It is just an array.  You have met ruby arrays haven't you?
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> >> I am rapidly losing the will to live.
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> >> Colin
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> > The response body isn't JSON.parse parsable as is it has to be gsub'd and chomped first before I can run JSON.parse My original gsub wasn't right it wasn't removing the end that follows ]
> > JSON::ParserError: 784: unexpected token at 'myscript.js({"success":true,"code
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> You previously posted that you had got parsed_obj where
> parsed_obj["results]  was an array.  Go back to that.

To quote your previous message

>puts parsed_obj["results"]  shows the entire results but `puts parsed_obj["results"]["productId"] gets me error no implicit
> conversion of String into Integer

The error is because it is an array, which is perfectly obvious if you
look at the unparsed string. So if you use
parsed_obj["results"][0]
you will get the first element

Colin