Have to_json return a mongoid as a string

Question

In my Rails API, I\'d like a Mongo object to return as a JSON string with the Mongo UID as an \"id\" property rather than as an \"_id\" object.

I want my API to retu

Answer 1

class Profile
  include Mongoid::Document
  field :name, type: String
  def to_json
    as_json(except: :_id).merge(id: id.to_s).to_json
  end
end