How to store json data in sqlite

Question

Im hard pressed to store data as \'JSON\' format into my sqlite database for an rails application. I have searched for how to store data as JSON in my sqlite database but am

Answer 1

Tried first using 'JSON' as an data type but since SQLite had no support for 'JSON' data type it failed. Then again I performed an migration with the data type for the attribute set up as type 'string' and it started to work.

Answer 2

You need to generate a string from your JSON and then save that string in your database as a regular string.

require 'json'
my_hash = {:hello => "goodbye"}
puts JSON.generate(my_hash) => "{\"hello\":\"goodbye\"}"

When you need to use that JSON object, you select your json string and convert it to JSON object using:

json_object = JSON.parse(string)

You can read about JSON objects here: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/json/rdoc/JSON.html