Displaying hash for has_many

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Let me start off by saying I am very much a beginner.

I currently have 2 models - Person, and address.

I am currently trying to display a person and their address on the "index" page in the person section.

I can create a person and multiple addresses all at once using the Advanced Rails Recipe, and the foreign key saves fine, but now I am trying to get the person to display with their associated address on the index page and am lost.

<% if @people -%> <script type="text/javascript">   var people = <%= @people.to_json %>; </script> <% end -%>

The above code spits out the proper string for all the people I want, however, I can't seem to figure out how to spit out their addresses as well.

def index   @people = Person.find(:all)   respond_to do |format|     format.html # index.html.erb     format.xml { render :xml => @people }   end end

The above is what I have in my person controller currently, and I have no idea where to go from here to get this done. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Assuming you have set up relationships correctly either has_one or has_many between Person and Address. It should be as simple as @person.address (or @person.address1 etc.). The @person instance variable will carry the associated data with it so you simply have to use the "." operator to get the address data. Bharat

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.to_json takes an :include param--have a look at the activerecord docs.