I''m doing an HTTP post to my controller with an xml request body: curl -u 53b2c:X -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -v -d "<subscriber><full_name>Alex Egg</full_name><carrier_id>2</ carrier_id><mobile_phone>1234321843</mobile_phone><password>asdf</ password><sub_categories type=\"array\"><sub_category>1</ sub_category><sub_category>2</sub_category></sub_categories></ subscriber>" http://localhost:3000/subscribers/helper.xml Rails deserialized xml xml into a subscriber hash: Parameters: {"subscriber"=>{"carrier_id"=>"2", "sub_categories"=>["1", "a"], "full_name"=>"Alex Egg", "password"=>"asdf", "mobile_phone"=>"1234321843"}, "format"=>"xml", "action"=>"helper", "controller"=>"subscribers"} However, if I do the same post with a JSON body, it fails to find anything in the body: curl -u 53b2c:X -H "Content-Type: application/json" -v -d ''{"subscriber":{"carrier_id":2, "full_name":"alex egg", "mobile_phone":"7605554311", "password":"asdf", "sub_categories": [1,2]}}'' http://localhost:3000/subscribers/helper.json Parameters: {"format"=>"json", "action"=>"helper", "controller"=>"subscribers"} And I get this back in the response: [["carrier_id", "can''t be blank"], ["full_name", "can''t be blank"], ["mobile_phone", "can''t be blank"], ["mobile_phone", "is too short (minimum is 10 characters)"]] Shouldn''t rails be able to deserialize the JSON body? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---