Ruby XML to JSON Converter?

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Lance Pollard picture Lance Pollard · Oct 7, 2009 · Viewed 43.4k times · Source

Is there a library to convert XML to JSON in Ruby?

Answer

khelll picture khelll · Oct 7, 2009

A simple trick:

First you need to gem install json, then when using Rails you can do:

require 'json'
require 'active_support/core_ext'
Hash.from_xml('<variable type="product_code">5</variable>').to_json #=> "{\"variable\":\"5\"}"

If you are not using Rails, then you can gem install activesupport, require it and things should work smoothly.

Example:

require 'json'
require 'net/http'
require 'active_support/core_ext/hash'
s = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/ruby/')).body
puts Hash.from_xml(s).to_json

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