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    <p>I'm trying to access a JSON version of my variable. I tried using . notation on the shows variable as I presumed it was now formatted as a json object. @shows.title but that caused an error. I tried to use @shows.to_json.title for it to work but still no good. I thought when you format.json it already calls the to_json and that was the idea of using format or am in incorrect in thinking this way. If so what does format do then. </p> <pre><code> class ShowsController &lt; ApplicationController # GET /shows # GET /shows.json def index @shows = Show.all respond_to do |format| format.html # index.html.erb format.json { render json: @shows } end end </code></pre> <p>index.html.erb</p> <pre><code>&lt;p&gt; @shows.title &lt;p&gt; </code></pre> <p>the structure I'm looking for in JSON would be like this.</p> <pre><code>[ { "id": "feature", "width":570, "title": "Lorem ipsum dolor amet emipsum do omnis iste natus", "description": "Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantiu mdoloremque laudantium.", "img": "img/work/img1.jpg", "url": "http://www.bla.com" }, { "id": "show", "width":200, "title": "Lorem ipsum dolo", "description": "Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantiu mdoloremque laudantium.", "img": "img/work/img2.jpg", "url": "http://www.bla.com" } </code></pre> <p>]</p> <p><strong>UPDATED:</strong> maybe I'm not explaining this correctly. </p> <p>My goal here is to have my action in the controller call the index.html page, which it does now. On that page is a jquery plugin that requests a JSON object with all the data from the database. This way it can parse through the JSON and render all the objects on the index.html page using jquery plugin. The reason for this is it's using a plugin called jquery.masonry.js &amp; jquery.infinitescroll.js which is now setup to use multiple JSON structures to create my pages. </p>
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    1. COto_json returns a json formatted string. respond_to is about the output being sent to the browser, not the format of variables sent to your templates. It seems like your trying to convert a variable to json and access that inside of an html view?
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    2. COI'm trying to convert a response from the model to JSON so I can use it in my template. So what is format doing then if that's not the case. What do you mean by "output being sent to the browser". I thought that was the output fro the browser using response_to
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    3. COCould I do an jquery ajax request in my index.html view for this formatted JSON then if respond_to is outputted to the browser.
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