Parsing JSON in Controller w/ HTTParty

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In my controller I have the following code... ``` response = HTTParty.get('https://graph.facebook.com/zuck') logger.debug(response.body.id) ``` I am getting a NoMethodError / undefined method `id' If I do... ``` logger.debug(response.body) ``` It outputs as it should... ``` {"id":"4","name":"Mark Zuckerberg","first_name":"Mark","last_name":"Zuckerberg","link":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck","username":"zuck","gender":"male","locale":"en_US"} ``` One would think it's response.body.id, but obviously that's not working. Thanks in advance!

Accepted Answer

Try this:

```
body = JSON.parse(response.body)
id = body["id"]
```

For this kind of thing, I'd recommend either a) using Koala or b) create a class using httparty. You can then set `format: json` to auto parse the returned json. See here and here

Parsing JSON in Controller w/ HTTParty

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