On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Chamnap wrote:
> > > > On Apr 2, 3:18 pm, Rob Biedenharn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Get the JSON gem for starters. >> >> sudo gem install json >> >> Then in your code: >> require 'rubygems' >> gem 'json' >> require 'json' > > I have followed what you said, but still doesn't work. The params > variable still contains weird string like: {"{\"first_name\":\"chamnap > \",\"last_name\":\"chhorn\"}"=>nil, "action"=>"create", > "controller"=>"users"}. Therefore, I could not access through either > params[:first_name] or params[:last_name]. > > Chamnap irb> require 'rubygems' => true irb> gem 'json' => true irb> require 'json' => true irb> raw = "{\"first_name\":\"chamnap\",\"last_name\":\"chhorn\"}" => "{\"first_name\":\"chamnap\",\"last_name\":\"chhorn\"}" irb> puts raw {"first_name":"chamnap","last_name":"chhorn"} => nil irb> JSON(raw) => {"first_name"=>"chamnap", "last_name"=>"chhorn"} irb> cooked = JSON.parse(raw) => {"first_name"=>"chamnap", "last_name"=>"chhorn"} irb> raw => "{\"first_name\":\"chamnap\",\"last_name\":\"chhorn\"}" irb> cooked => {"first_name"=>"chamnap", "last_name"=>"chhorn"} irb> raw.class => String irb> cooked.class => Hash irb> cooked["first_name"] => "chamnap" irb> cooked[:first_name] => nil Note that JSON.parse is going to return a normal Ruby Hash, not a Rails ActiveSupport HashWithIndifferentAccess. You'll have to use "first_name" as the key, not :first_name. Show the code that you're trying to use that's pulling that whole string into a key of the params hash. -Rob Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
