From: Gurpal 2000 <gurpal@...>
Date: 2008-09-16T08:39:32+09:00
Subject: Re: json for extjs (without rails)

Gurpal 2000 wrote:
>> cfp:~ > ruby a.rb
>> [{"key":42},{"another key":42.0}]
>> 
>> {"a":4,"b":2}
>> 
>> 
>> a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
> 
> I have another question. If I do something like this:
> 
> mydata = [ C.new(4, 2).to_json, C.new(1, 3).to_json, C.new(5, 6).to_json 
> ]
> myhash = { 'data' => mydata }
> puts myhash.to_json
> 
> I see that the output will double escape the values (they are actually 
> strings with all sorts of characters in my code).
> 
> I guess what i need is the to_json on the hash to call to_json in each 
> element of the array. What's the ruby-esque way to do this? I could do 
> it in long code but doesn't feel right. This should easy right?
> 
> Thanks

example if i put multiple Cars in a hash or asrray and then wrap that in
a "data" hash i get double quotes:

{"data":["{\"a\":\"acar\",\"b\":2}","{\"a\":\"ccar\",\"b\":6}","{\"a\":\"bcar\",\"b\":3}"]}

what i need is something like

{ data: [ { data1 }, { data2 }, ... ] }

thanks
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