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Someone asked me in IRC if javascript can access ActiveRecord properties. At first, this seemed like a silly request. But then I remember JSON and thought, why can''t you? I implemented a quick ActiveRecord -> JSON converter using the ruby-json gem. http://rafb.net/paste/results/Yixi5I21.html One problem was that I have to call .to_s to convert everything to a format for JSON. But, objects like Time dont'' have nice .to_s representations. So, I added an options hash that you can use to override them. @post.to_json(Time => [:to_s, :db]) will call .to_s(:db) on every t...