Rails - How can I display nicely indented JSON?
- by sa125
Hi -
I have a controller action that returns JSON data for api purposes, and plenty of it. I want to be able to inspect it in the browser, and have it nicely indented for the viewer. For example, if my data is
data = { :person => { :id => 1, :name => "john doe", :age => 30 }, :person => ... }
I want to see
{ "person" :
{
"id" : 1,
"name" : "john doe",
"age" : 30,
},
"person" :
{
"id" : 2,
"name" : "jane doe",
"age" : 31,
},
...etc
}
In the view.
I thought about using different routes to get the bulk/pretty data:
# GET /api/json
# ...
respond_to do |format|
format.html { render :json => data.to_json }
end
# GET /api/json/inspect
# ...
respond_to do |format|
format.html { render :text => pretty_json }
end
Anyone knows of a gem/plugin that does this or something similar? I tried using JSON.pretty_generate, but it doesn't seem to work inside rails (2.3.5). thanks.
