Rails - Apr 2007 - to_json adds double quote to beginning and end of string

Hello all,

I have a question regarding the to_json function. If I create a string
in script/console, and then apply the to_json method, it will take the
first and last double quote as part of the string. Is this behaviour
normal?

eg:

test = "my string"
test.to_json will return "\"my string\""

Regards,
Carl


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> I have a question regarding the to_json function. If I create 
> a string in script/console, and then apply the to_json 
> method, it will take the first and last double quote as part 
> of the string. Is this behaviour normal?
> 
> eg:
> 
> test = "my string"
> test.to_json will return "\"my string\""
Yep. The rails console is printing test.to_json as a string value like
any other. Notice if you output the test variable itself, being a string
value, it''s surrounded by double quotes. The same thing happens to
test.to_json, with the added wrinkle that the value contains actual
double quote characters, which are escaped for display.

- donald

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It''s not taking the first and last double quote as part of the string,
per say.  It''s just generating a valid JSON object for you.  In the
case of a bare words like: my string, the JSON would be "my string".
>> ''blah''.to_json
=> "\"blah\""
>> puts ''blah''.to_json
"blah"
=> nil

On Apr 14, 12:39 am, "Carl H."
<charr...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a question regarding the to_json function. If I create a string
> in script/console, and then apply the to_json method, it will take the
> first and last double quote as part of the string. Is this behaviour
> normal?
>
> eg:
>
> test = "my string"
> test.to_json will return "\"my string\""
>
> Regards,
> Carl

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