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Hi, Does anyone know how to include nested associations when overriding a model''s #as_json method? Below is my attempt to include direct and nested associations. NOTE: "office" is a direct association, "company" is nested association via "office". I''d like both included in the generated json output. def as_json(options={}) super(:include

I am looking at rails edge source code. I am able to do puts User.find.to_yaml However I am not able to find piece of code where ''def to_yaml'' is. How this to_yaml serialization is working? can fully understand how to_json and to_xml is working but to_yaml beats me. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

Hello, to implement some some kind of optimistic locking, I want to build a view, where an object is displayed together with a link containing the data of the displayed object. My first try looked something like <%= object.object_discription %> <%= link_to "action", :action => "take_action", :data => object %> this won''t work because object is of

Originally posted on github, reported to the right place. I would like to open a discussion about how `to_json` and `as_json` operates in Rails from a performance standpoint. I''m using Rails 3.2 but this issue applies to almost all versions of Rails. Our use case presents the challenge in sending out potentially large JSON (or XML, but we''ll focus on JSON rendering here)

Hi, How can we use an array created in Ruby in Java script ? Regards, Prashant -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

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

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''

I have a form_tag written like this : = form_tag search_backoffice_places_path, {:remote =>"true", :id => :searchplaceForm } do .. input fields = submit_tag t(:search) generated html is correct : <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/en/backoffice/places/search" data-remote="true" id="searchplaceForm" method="post"> ...

Hi all, I''m working on a Backbone.js single page app with Rails 3.1, and in an attempt to save on HTTP requests, I want to embed initial data set in a HTML document that is sent back to the browser after successful login. I was thinking I can simply convert my ruby object to JSON, then HTML escape resulting string of JSON, and then use that as a value for JavaScript variable. Something

Hello, I''m able to create and send a JSON object like so: @mylist << { :id => item.id, :name => name.id } render :json => { :result => ''success'', :mylist => @mylist } That works great. Problem I''m having now is that I need to include users which can be 1 or users per item. @mylist << {

Hi All I''m trying to build an application which requires to scrap information from a webpage. On trying to perform the action, I get an error while trying to convert the html data to JSON. Has anyone experienced this before and if so can you please tell me how to solve this problem ? Please see below for code snippet and error log. Thanks in advance Anush require

Hi I have an app which posts an ajax request with with text area content, but when it does post it it gets all the newlines and multiple spaces removed (need to use multiple spacing for use with markdown code snippets) I''ve created a sample app which you can see here http://test.42horizons.com/test, View it in IE 8 and both requests remove line spaces and new lines, view it in firefox

Could someone please demonstrate the code to send both json (or xml) AND javascript (to be executed) in a single Ajax request? Is this even possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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

Hey all... I''m building a RESTful JSON API and I find myself writing this: JSON.parse(request.body.read) ...over and over in every controller action that accepts JSON in the request body (which is a lot of actions). Does rails have a better built-in way to keep the code more DRY? Or should I solve that somehow myself? Thanks, Cainus -- You received this message because you are

Hello, Anybody help me out? I done googled it good and didn''t find anything (which should mean that I''ve done something wrong). Not much code to talk about here, quite simply I have an attribute that is serialzied and when I update it, irb shows the object and my methods run on it as it were indeed so. Though when I reload it changes the data to a string. Not yaml, just one

I find myself writing the following frequently: r = MyActiveRecord.where(:attr1 => cond1, :attr2 => cond2, ...) r.exists? ? r.first : r.create ... which has the effect of returning an instance of MyActiveRecord if all the conditions are met, or creating one if it doesn''t. A variant of this: c = MyActiveRecord.new(:attr1 => val1, :attr2 => val2, ...) r =

When I write var x = "<%= select_tag(:activity_group, options_for_select(activity_grp),{:include_blank => ''Create New Group'', :style => ''width: 100px''}) %>"; where <% activity_grp = @activity_group.map { |ag| [ag.name, ag.id] } %> However, I get error (missing ; before statement) in Firebug because var x = "<select

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

[rails 3.2.2] I perform an ajax call : ... $.ajax url: " /backoffice/expenses/rate" type: "GET" dataType: "json" data: project_id: $(''#project_id'').val() code: $(this).val() success: (result) -> alert result $(''#expense_price'').val(result) in

Hi guys, I have a simple controller def gmap @intentsearches = Intentsearch.all logger.info @intentsearches respond_to do |format| format.html {render :gmap} format.xml {render :xml => @intentsearches } format.json { render :json => @intentsearches } end end and want a json response, but i do get the following error Completed 500 Internal