Rails: rendering XML adds tag

Question

I\'ve got a Rails controller which is going to output a hash in XML format - for example:

class MyController < ApplicationController
  # GET /example.xml
  de         


        

Answer 1

I was having the same Issue;

This is my XML:

I was using this:

entries.to_xml

to convert hash data into XML, but this wraps entries' data into

So I modified:

entries.to_xml(root: "Contacts")

but that still wrapped the converted XML in 'Contacts'. modifying my XML code to

So it adds an extra ROOT that I don't wan't there.

Now solution to this what worked for me is:

 entries["Contacts"].to_xml(root: "Contacts")

that avoids or any additional root to be included. Cheers!!