Convert XML to JSON

gistfile1.txt

require 'json'
Hash.from_xml('<variable type="product_code">5</variable>').to_json # => "{\"variable\":\"5\"}"

require 'net/http'
s = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/ruby/')).body
Hash.from_xml(s).to_json

# for pretty output
JSON.pretty_generate(Hash.from_xml('<variable type="product_code">5</variable>'))

# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1530324/ruby-xml-to-json-converter