I have no trouble making typical AJAX calls to and from Rails(3) with JSON objects and jQuery-rails (jQuery library plus a special rails.js file).
In one controller, though, I want to RETURN some JSON in an erb template (create.js.erb) after an AJAX call.
I've tried every combination of things in the controller (@object.to_json, '[{"content":"hello world"}]', etc.) and in the template itself (JSON.parse(), single quotes, double quotes, etc.), but the object keeps on rendering like this:
'[{"groups":{},"created_at":"2010-09-21T03:49:34Z" ...
and as a result, my jQuery code cannot parse it and I get errors.
How do I need to prep my object in the controller, and what erb syntax do I need in the view for it to render as a valid JSON object?
Thanks so much!