ActiveRecord select except columns

Question

Is there a way I can specify to select ALL columns in ActiveRecord except just a few. For example, for a User, I don\'t want to select their password hash or their email. Is

Answer 1

Another really usefull way it's with a scope inside the model in case you need to avoid a column constantly.

In my case I save images into blob fields so I want to avoid those to be loaded everytime and in a easy way:

scope :select_exclude_image, ->  { select( Movie.attribute_names - ['image'] ) }

Then to avoid the image in the selection you can do something like that:

Movie.select_exclude_image.first

or

Movie.select_exclude_image.all

I hope it will help!