Dashing JSON

Make your JSON absolutely dashing in your rails HTML views since, sometimes, you need to display a raw blob.

Dashing JSON uses a dashing-json data element to store the JSON string, which is then parsed into a ul with specific li elements and corresponding classes: key, string, boolean, null, and number. It comes with default styling so your JSON blob is sure to look dashing right out of the box.

{"data": { "key": null, "can_read": false } }

{
  "data": {
    "key": null,
    "can_read": false
  }
}

Yeah, that's right. Egyptian curly braces (you can change that if you want).

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'dashing_json'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install dashing_json

If you're using sprockets, add the following to your application.css:

*= require dashing_json

If you're using an application.css.scss file:

@import "dashing_json";

And, include the scripts with the following in your application.js

*= require dashing_json

Now, you simply need to instantiate the JSON blob in you controller:

class ModelController < ApplicationController

# ...

  def show
    @model = Model.find(params[:id])
    @json_blob = @model.to_json
  end

# ...

And, then call the dashing_json method in your view:

<%= # ... %>

<%= dashing_json(@json_blob) %>

<%= # ... %>

That's it, your JSON is now dashing.

Overriding the default colors of the syntax highlighting is simple since they're just variables. If you're using scss, and would like to customize the styles, you can add the following before you import the stylesheet in plugins/_dashing_json.scss:

$dashing-json-key-color:     $your-color;
$dashing-json-string-color:  $your-color;
$dashing-json-number-color:  $your-color;
$dashing-json-boolean-color: $your-color;

@import "dashing_json";

Be sure to import this file in your application.css.scss.

If you aren't using sass, the selectors would be something like:

.dashing-json .key,
.dashing-json .null,
.dashing-json .string,
.dashing-json .boolean,
.dashing-json .number {
  /* custom styling here */
}

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request