Ruby on Rails Advanced JSON Serialization

Question

I\'m looking to render an index of all articles along with a full article via JSON in my rails app, but I\'m having a little trouble figuring out how to do it.

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Answer 1

I would recommend overloading the attributes method to return an alternat hash that will be automatically used in to_json output.

class Article
   def attributes
     { ... } # define your hash that you want to return at the '...'
   end
end

To me this seems much simpler than mucking around with to_json directly.