Ruby on Rails
Converting ActiveRecord Objects to JSON
Copy Rails ActiveRecord objects and convert to JSON.
4 min readMarch 2026
When debugging Rails applications, you often copy objects from the Rails console:
#<User id: 1, name: "Rohith", email: "rohith@example.com", created_at: "2024-01-01 10:00:00">
This is an ActiveRecord object inspect output. DevConvert recognizes this format and converts it to clean JSON.
Example
Input (ActiveRecord Object):
#<User id: 1, name: "Rohith", email: "rohith@example.com", role: "admin", active: true>
Output (JSON):
{
"__class__": "User",
"id": 1,
"name": "Rohith",
"email": "rohith@example.com",
"role": "admin",
"active": true
}