Right now when passing parameters through jQuery, it serializes something like:
{ order: [{ name: "last_name", dir: "asc" }, name: "first_name", dir: "asc" }] } Into: order%5B0%5D%5Bname%5D=last_name&order%5B0%5D%5Bdir%5D=asc&order%5B1%5D%5Bname%5D=first_name&order%5B1%5D%5Bdir%5D=asc Then on the Rails side, it gets interpreted as: {"order"=>{"0"=>{"name"=>"last_name", "dir"=>"asc"}, "1"=>{"name"=>"first_name", "dir"=>"asc"}}} At first thought it looked like a bug, but it's really a problem with how the serialization/deserialization can be interpreted. Here's an article that goes further into it: http://benalman.com/news/2009/12/jquery-14-param-demystified Since this is such a common problem, can something be built into Rails to handle it? I would love if it worked by default, but I guess since you might sometimes want the current output, maybe there's a flag that can be passed to tell Rails to convert the hash into an array. Let me know if there are better alternatives. I know there are some solutions available, such as using JSON.stringify, but that won't work with GET requests. Thanks, Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.