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Ruby Object To JavaScript Object

12.17.2008
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        Convert a Ruby object to a JavaScript object.
Requires Rails and prototype.js


 javascript_object = "<%= 
   ruby_object.to_json.gsub('\\','\\\\\\\\').gsub('"', '\\"') 
%>".evalJSON()

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Snippets Manager replied on Wed, 2008/07/23 - 8:43am

I don't get it. You convert a ruby object to JSON, and then back to ruby? Why not just this: json = ruby_object.to_json
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