How to iterate ActiveRecord Attributes, including attr_accessor methods

Question

I\'ve looked everywhere for an elegant solution. The essential problem seems to be that ActiveRecord attributes that map to database columns are handled completely differen

Answer 1

I came here looking to do the same thing, and found out it was the wrong approach altogether thanks to Orion's answer.

Incase anyone else's use case is similar to mine, here's my solution. I was using attr_accessor to add extra properties to the models after querying them from ActiveRecord. I then wanted to output the results as JSON etc.

A better solution is to first convert the Models from ActiveRecord into regular hashes, and then add the attr_accessor properties as regular hash keys.

Example:

model_hash = model_from_activerecord.attributes.to_options
model_hash[:key] = value