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

You hint at the solution in your question. You most likely want to build up a hash to render to JSON. The preferred way of doing this now is by providing an implementation for the as_json method. as_json provides a formal means of customizing to_json output by building up a hash containing the data you wish to encode.

A more thorough treatment of how as_json and to_json interact can be found on Jonathan Julian's weblog.