Rails 5 model objects not showing all Devise attributes

Question

I am using Rails 5 API with devise. I have a User model. Schema looks like this.

create_table \"users\", force: :cascade do |t|
    t.string   \         


        

Answer 1

This is probably because devise does not expose their internal attributes.

So to get all attributes you can use .attributes (documented here) which returns a hash, on which you can call to_json:

user = User.find(1)
user.attributes.to_json # => contains all fields like reset_password_token etc.

Answer 2

Try attributes method

User.first.attributes

Answer 3

Devise restricts attributes like encrypted_password so that the critical information doesn't get exposed in API calls. So to override this, you need to override serializable_hash method.

def serializable_hash(options = nil) 
  super(options).merge(encrypted_password: encrypted_password) 
end

This is not a Rails 5 specific feature but a Devise feature to protect your attributes.

Hope that helps!