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

If you don't want to change default behavior of MongoId, just convert result of as_json.

profile.as_json.map{|k,v| [k, v.is_a?(BSON::ObjectId) ? v.to_s : v]}.to_h

Also, this convert other BSON::ObjectId like user_id.