display collection as json array in rails

[joshryanne]

hi, i'm very new to rails(and ruby). was wondering how i can get the following output in rails:

[ { "first": "Garrett", "last": "Bjerkhoel" }, { "first": "John", "last": "Doe" } ]

\ if i do something like

Staff @users do |user| first user.firstname last last:lastname end

\ it will give me something like:

{ "staff":[ { "first": "Garrett", "last": "Bjerkhoel" }, { "first": "John", "last": "Doe" } ] }

\ but i don't want to include "staff" etc. i just want a json with an array directly as i mentioned above can you pls. teach me how, as i've said i'm new to ruby and rails. thanks.

[dewski]

You have to use the array method:

array @users do |user|
  first user.firstname
  last user.lastname
end

Welcome to Rails btw!