Rails 3 passing a rails array to javascript function which uses a javascript array

Question

I am trying to pass a rails array to a javascript function. The function will then use the array values in javascript so I need to keep it an array.

Here is how I am

Answer 1

Going to JSON as suggested a couple times in this post always gave me something like this.

[{"mile":{"date":"2011-05-20","mpg":"18.565887006952"}},{"mile":{"date":"2011-06-01","mpg":"18.471164309032"}}]

What I really wanted was just this... [[2011-05-20, 18.56][2011-06-01, 18.47]]

So I handled it with a helper like so.

  def chart_values()
    @chart_values = '['
    @mpg_values.each do |m|
      @chart_values = @chart_values+'['+m.date.to_s+', '+m.mpg.round(2).to_s+'],'
    end
    @chart_values = @chart_values+']'
  end

Then passed chart_values() to the javascript.

Likely not the best solution but it gave me the desired values in the format I needed.