Rails3 - pass thumbnail image as Byte Array to JSON

Question

In Rails 3, how can I pass thumbnail image as Byte Array to JSON?

Answer 1

For converting images to text you could convert it to base64.

Check out:

ruby:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/base64/rdoc/Base64.html

jquery:

http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/base64

UPDATE:

How to encode media in base64 given URL in Ruby