Cross post from SO, hoping to get more insight here. I've got a column called message in one of my model (UserMessage) in rails. Now message can contain emoticon value which I passed in from an iphone app.
For example, the smiley icon has the unicode value of U+1F604 and since it's passed in with json format, it's serialize to "\u{1F604}" in my database (postgres). Now all is fine until I call render :json => @user_message in my controller. Rails take the serialized message "\u{1F604}" and call ActiveSupport::JSON.encode on it and therefore encode it again. I've try to override to_json in the UserMessage class to no avail. Can someone please point me to the right direction? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.