Rails 3 to_xml problems

Question

I'm trying to generate a simple XML feed using Rails' to_xml:

xml = {
  :id    => '1234',
  :title => 'Title',
  :url   => 'www.site.com',
  :items => items.to_xml(:skip_instruct => true, :skip_types => true, :include => :user)
}.to_xml(:root => 'feed', :skip_types => true)

I have two problems with this approach:

Everything inside <items> is ecscaped and renders as regular text.
It generates an additional <items> node

So the resulting <items> node looks like

<items>
 &lt;items&gt; ... &lt;/items&gt;
<items>

How can I make it work using just to_xml?

Joshua · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-23 21:36:01Z

1

You should be able to use this syntax:

xml = {
  :id    => '1234',
  :title => 'Title',
  :url   => 'www.site.com',
  :items => items 
}.to_xml(:root => 'feed', :skip_types => true)

Any options you apply to the whole transformation should(?) apply to the items transformation.

answered Dec 23, 2010 at 21:36

Joshua

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