How could I render to a string a JSON representation of a JBuilder view?

Question

I\'m using JBuilder as to return some JSON. I have a index.json.jbuilder that generates the data, and I need to render it to a string. However, I\'m not sure ho

Answer 1

You can also do it like this, which leaves your controller a bit cleaner.

# controller
def new
  @data = Data.all
end


# view
<% content_for :head do %>
  
<% end %>


# path/to/_partial.html.jbuilder
json.array!(@data) do |d|
  json.extract! field1, :field2, :field3, :field4
  json.url data_url(d, format: :json)
end


# layouts/application.html



  <%= yield :head %>


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