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The way Rails handles root nodes in JSON and XML serialization is inconsistent. This has been discussed before: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/2584-232-activeresource-json-doesnt-send-parameters-with-root-node This seems mostly taken care of with ActiveModel::Base.include_root_in_json, especially if/when it ends up in ActiveResource. However, there is also the issue of how

Hi, i have a "place" model with 2 columns (id, name). I''m calling an external api which gives me data to create a new place object. I would like to add the address from the external place to the place object and render it as a json result, without storing it in the database. i don''t get any errors, but the address never shows up within the json output. i''ve

Hello, I''m working on a Rails app which has a REST API. I manage two formats JSON and XML. Very often to simplify the use if the API, I''m making includes. But when you add params to to_json and to_xml like :only, :except, it''s not only applied on the root object but on all the objects included. Do you know libs or methods to answer to these different problems: * Tell

Hi, I''ve done AJAX calls to Rails'' Controllers before yet never required to generate a response back to the view. In this respect, I have tried to keep it moronically simple and just add a node to see that it works, yet the response doesn''t come through / isn''t interpreted as it should. Long story short, code : // Have to use Mootools to integrate a

Hi, I want to use a file resource to write a facts.yaml file for Mcollective. For some reason it won''t provide a valid yaml format if I dump my scope to hash and convert to_yaml. file { "/etc/mcollective/facts.yaml" : owner => root, group => root, mode => 400, loglevel => debug, #content => inline_template("<%= scope.to_hash.reject {

Hi everyone, I''m writing a lightweight AJAX application using Rails on the server side as a RESTful web service provider. I need the web service to support both JSON and XML I/O. Outputting data in XML and JSON is easy (using to_xml and to_json), and it''s also easy to do XML input as Rails does it for you automatically. Is it possible to somehow have the same automatic parsing

I''m trying to write a helper method similar to attr_accessible but instead it will be used to whitelist which attributes are available for serialization (attr_serializable). My first attempt at this was to override serialized_hash and modify the :only option to include nothing but serializable attributes. I''m facing a problem when nested models are ''included''

Hi, Attached are links to two patches I submitted via the RoR Trac system a week or so ago: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8305 http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8308 I refrained from creating a new Trac ticket for ARes, which will be affected if both of these patches are accepted by Core. There are a couple of workarounds for this issue, but it would be nice for AR, AS and ARes to output

Question: Hi, our company is using Ruby 1.8.6 with Rails 2.2.2. Does anyone know we can explicitly specify what encoding to use when calling to_json() or to_xml() methods? Problem: We have some multibyte characters in our database. For example we have a table with a name column that has this French accented e: Café Records. When we serialize this object using ActiveRecord''s to_xml()

Title: Nested serialization with to_json and to_xml with array and hash element class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :address has_one :job def office() return "Executive_Suite" end end class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end class Job < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person has_one :paygrade def Title return "Engineer" end end

I am using RoR ActiveRecord polymorphic inheritance and was wondering if it''s possible to access the base class'' association methods in the invocation of either to_xml or to_json without having to depict the base class data in the serialized string. Here are my classes: # base class class Asset < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :resource, :polymorphic => true

Hi, I''m trying to make a fixture for testing with a serialized column. In the YAML fixture I''m trying to fill the serialized column with the to_yaml function. But I keep getting the ''---'' separator, which I don''t want because it is only a ''partial'' yaml fill. According to the documentation to_yaml takes a hash of options, so

I am using rails edge. I am using gem "rspec-rails", "= 2.0.0.beta. 19" . I have following code at spec/models/user_spec.rb require ''spec_helper'' describe User do it { should validate_presence_of(:email) } it { should validate_presence_of(:name) } end Here is my gemfile group :development, :test do gem ''factory_girl_rails'',

Campfire REALLY intrigues me... Its simple enough, yet the possibilities are endless once they get the API in place for it. I''m curious though, how are they handling they load with say 50 campfire sessions going and 20+ people in each session. There are a lot of AJAX.Requests going I''m assuming. Seems to me the server *should* be getting bogged down on the constant

Hi, I am trying to save a Mechanize object in database (using a Rails Model). But the save operation throws a TypeError Considering that "agent" is an instance of a Rails Model and "user" is defined as a "text" type in the Model. irb(main):039:0> agent.user = WWW::Mechanize.new #<WWW::Mechanize:0xb71295f0 @follow_meta_refresh=false, @key=nil,

Hi, I am trying to convert a hash to JSON using ActiveSupports built in .to_json. I am doing similar to the example below but are there certain strings that could go in place of ''bar'' or ''rez'' that will break the to_json method? I am using a very long string from rjs output in place of ''bar''. Perhaps .to_json is not ready yet? Thanks, Peter

I''m using [acts_as_commentable_with_threading](http://github.com/elight/acts_as_commentable_with_threading/), and it worked fine until I tried to overwrite the to_json function to include more details about the associated user. Here''s part of the comment class (which was originally defined in the plugin, but I moved it to the models folder, a move which seems not to affect the

Since all my efforts to control how to_xml() is formatting dates has failed, I''m now considering writing my own to_xml(). However, from the limited examples I''ve found, I just don''t understand how to actually reference the columns for the records in my record set. Here''s a simplified view of my ActiveRecord object: class Errors < ActiveRecord::Base

When I call to_xml on an array, I want it to get the XML for all the elements in it. I''ve defined to_xml in my class. >> r.to_xml => "<video><id>1</id><views>2</views></video>" >> a = [r] => [#<StatisticsReport:0x3259f38 @video_id=1, @views=2>] >> a.to_xml => "<?xml version=\"1.0\"

I want to write out a series of records to a text file so that I can quickly edit them and then upload then again into the database. To do this I am using YAML and some code that looks like this: item = Item.find 153 File.open( ''item.yaml'', ''w'' ) do |out| YAML.dump( item, out ) end This dumps out all the field names and values which are stored in the