Comments on: Rails to_json or as_json?

By: Rafael Revi

Rafael Revi — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:52:00 +0000

Great post jjulian!

any chance you can help with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10433194/rails-format-json

By: Magnemg

Magnemg — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:58:00 +0000

So helpful! thanks. Didn’t know about as_json before.

By: pseudo_rails

pseudo_rails — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:36:00 +0000

Oops, I had a typo in my MyController pseudo code.

It should be this:

class MyController < ApplicationControllerrespond_to :jsondef show@user = User.find(params[:id]) respond_with(@user , :include => {:addresses => {:include => :email}}) end

Which I want to refactor with something like this in the model: def as_json(options={})super(:only => [:email, :avatar], :include =>[:addresses => {:include => :email}])end

But I get an undefined method `macro' for nil:NilClass

By: pseudo_rails

pseudo_rails — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:19:00 +0000

Given the following example from your blog post:

def as_json(options={}) super(:only => [:email, :avatar], :include =>[:addresses]) end

when overriding the as_json method, if I want to include nested child nodes, how would I go about doing so? I essentially want to refactor the respond_with usage in my controller by just overriding the as_json method in the model.

class MyController < ApplicationController respond_to :json def show @user = User.find(params[:id]) respond_with(@tag, :include => {:addresses => {:include => :email}}) end

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:51:00 +0000

very helpful post, thanks