Rails converts empty arrays into nils in params of the request

Question

I have a Backbone model in my app which is not a typical flat object, it\'s a large nested object and we store the nested parts in TEXT columns in a MySQL database.

I wa

Answer 1

I ran into similar issue.

Fixed it by sending empty string as part of the array.

So ideally your params should like

{
  name: "foo",
  surname: "bar",
  nested_json: {
    complicated: [""]
  }
}

So instead of sending empty array I always pass ("") in my request to bypass the deep munging process.