Ruby on Rails

On Feb 1, 2014, at 2:35 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote:

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> On Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:49:41 PM UTC, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:
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> [{"id":2, "name":"foo"}, {"id":3, "name":"bar"...
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> no root elements. Using the active record serializers I've gotten some
> flexibility in specifying the root element, but now I either end up with
> the above (no root element) or:
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> {"scholarships":["scholarships":{"id", 2....
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> where I get a root element for the whole Array that is then added to
> every element.
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> Is anybody still with me and can help me unwind this? When rendering
> the json for a scholarhip I need to specify the "scholarship" root tag
> ... and when rendering a collection of Scholarships I need to be able to
> override and NOT show a root tag?
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> Have you tried playing with the include_root_in_json setting?
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> If it comes to it you could always override as_json in your model or use something like jbuilder to construct your json explicitly

+100 for jbuilder -- using it today for the second time, and discovered that I quite like it. If you lean back and try to do less, it works better!

Walter

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> Fred
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