Ruby getting deeply nested JSON API data

Question

I have a rails app which gets a response from World Weather Online API. I\'m using the rest-client gem and the response is in JSON format.

I parse the response using

Answer 1

You may want to look at JSONPath. It does exactly what you need. Its syntax is very similar to XPath, but JSONPath works with JSON data (as obvious).

There is a Ruby implementation: https://github.com/joshbuddy/jsonpath

I personally use it in every project where I need to test JSON responses.