Question

I have a JSON string in rails as shown below:

[{"content":"1D","createdTime":"09-06-2011 00:59"},{"content":"2D","createdtime":"09-06-2011 08:00"}]

which are the objects of a class content with attributes content and created time.

I would like to convert this JSON string to its respective JSON object array so that I can run a loop and decode the JSON to its objects in rails. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

You can use the json library json

You can then do:

jsonArray = [{"content":"1D","createdTime":"09-06-2011 00:59"},   
              {"content":"2D","createdtime":"09-06-2011 08:00"}]
objArray = JSON.parse(jsonArray)

In response to your comment, you can do this, as long as your JSON fits your model

objArray.each do |object|
  # This is a hash object so now create a new one.
  newMyObject = MyObject.new(object)
  newMyObject.save # You can do validation or any other processing around here.
end