Rails: include related object in JSON output

Question

I have a note class that belongs to a user (ie a user can create many notes).

clip from my notes controller

class NotesController < ApplicationControl         


        

Answer 1

You can also use Jbuilder(https://github.com/rails/jbuilder) to response with data very flexible.

@notes = Note.includes(:user).order("created_at DESC")

and in your index.json.jbuilder file, you can

json.extract! @note
json.username @note.user.username