render using a custom json method

Question

One of my active record subclasses has a method that creates a json-like representation. Is this the way to answer an array of that data?

# answer is an array
answer = MyModel.fetch()

respond_to do |format|
    format.json { render :json => answer.collect { |e| e.as_special_json } }
end

I don't think this is right. I guess I don't really understand what render :json is all about. I think this will json encode the almost-json. Is there any way to just answer the almost-json like any other json?

klump · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-07 01:06:16Z

1

You could just render it as text:

respond_to do |format|
  format.special_json { render :text => answer.collect{ |e| e.as_special_json } }
end

Your can access add a .special_json to your url to make rails render the text. You need to map the new mime symbol "special_json" to the json mime type. Just add this line to config/initializers/mime_types.rb:

Mime::Type.register "application/json", :special_json

answered Apr 7, 2012 at 1:06

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