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Asked: 2026-05-20T13:34:18+00:00

I have some Rails 2.3.x code that I would like to run on Rails

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I have some Rails 2.3.x code that I would like to run on Rails 3.0.3, but it seems to fail in my JSON to ActiveRecord code. Here is what I do:

mymodel = MyModel.new.from_json(json_string)

I get no errors here, but my object is empty as if there was no data in my json_string, but there is. If I look at the API (http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Serialization/from_json) then it looks to me as it is not supported in 3.x, or?

I have tried with ActiveSupport::JSON.decode, but that decodes into a hashtable of key/values it seems?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Same problem here. The culprit is https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c1d73270717f30498f8f4d55d6695509107c2834, here is an explanation: http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2010/04/inside-ruby-on-rails-serializing-ruby-objects-with-json/

    The solution seems indeed to use

       @obj.attributes = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(json)

    instead of “@obj.from_json(json)”. At least for ActiveRecord objects, this works for me.

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