Ruby on Rails Advanced JSON Serialization

Question

I\'m looking to render an index of all articles along with a full article via JSON in my rails app, but I\'m having a little trouble figuring out how to do it.

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I think that the link that nirvdrum gave holds your answer. I only answer because nobody has mentioned encode_json.

In your case you should only be dealing with as_json. Either by building a hash (with various calls to as_json) and sending that to render :json => ... (without the call to to_json) or by simply implementing as_json on your model and letting rails do all the work. (But I suspect you'll need the former.)

If you really need some fancy js in your rendered response then you can implement encode_json in your classes (again, not to_json). For example:

class JsEmptyClosure
  def encode_json(*args)
    "jQuery[\"noop\"] || function(){}"
  end
  def as_json(*args) self end
end

This will now respond to to_json with valid js (but note it's not actually json).