JSON output replacing & with "\u0026 "

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Hi,

I'm outputting some database objects as static JSON files using a stand along ruby script.rb, that other could run outside of my rails app. When I use this script, the output replaces "&" with "\u0026." If I use the same code to output my JSON files in console, it outputs fine.

I imagine there is some gem or something I'm not including in my script.rb that would resolve this. Thoughts?

Thanks!

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Hi,

I'm outputting some database objects as static JSON files using a stand along ruby script.rb, that other could run outside of my rails app. When I use this script, the output replaces "&" with "\u0026." If I use the same code to output my JSON files in console, it outputs fine.

I imagine there is some gem or something I'm not including in my script.rb that would resolve this. Thoughts?

If you're using ActiveSupport's json stuff then ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding.escape_html_entities_in_json controls this (although \u0026 is perfectly u legal way of representing &)

Fred