user = User.find(1)
user.as_json
# => { "id" => 1, "name" => "Konata Izumi", "age" => 16,
# "created_at" => "2006/08/01", "awesome" => true}
ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json = true
user.as_json
# => { "user" => { "id" => 1, "name" => "Konata Izumi", "age" => 16,
# "created_at" => "2006/08/01", "awesome" => true } }
user = User.find(1)
user.as_json(root: true)
# => { "user" => { "id" => 1, "name" => "Konata Izumi", "age" => 16,
# "created_at" => "2006/08/01", "awesome" => true } }
user = User.find(1)
user.as_json
# => { "id" => 1, "name" => "Konata Izumi", "age" => 16,
# "created_at" => "2006/08/01", "awesome" => true}
user.as_json(only: [:id, :name])
# => { "id" => 1, "name" => "Konata Izumi" }
user.as_json(except: [:id, :created_at, :age])
# => { "name" => "Konata Izumi", "awesome" => true }
user.as_json(methods: :permalink)
# => { "id" => 1, "name" => "Konata Izumi", "age" => 16,
# "created_at" => "2006/08/01", "awesome" => true,
# "permalink" => "1-konata-izumi" }
user.as_json(include: :posts)
# => { "id" => 1, "name" => "Konata Izumi", "age" => 16,
# "created_at" => "2006/08/01", "awesome" => true,
# "posts" => [ { "id" => 1, "author_id" => 1, "title" => "Welcome to the weblog" },
# { "id" => 2, "author_id" => 1, "title" => "So I was thinking" } ] }
user.as_json(include: { posts: {
include: { comments: {
only: :body } },
only: :title } })
# => { "id" => 1, "name" => "Konata Izumi", "age" => 16,
# "created_at" => "2006/08/01", "awesome" => true,
# "posts" => [ { "comments" => [ { "body" => "1st post!" }, { "body" => "Second!" } ],
# "title" => "Welcome to the weblog" },
# { "comments" => [ { "body" => "Don't think too hard" } ],
# "title" => "So I was thinking" } ] }