Passing arguments to nested to_json call

Question

Consider a controller action that returns the following:

Post.includes(:comments).to_json(:include => [:comments])

Is it somehow possible to pass arguments to the to_json comments method call so that I could modify comments json representation in this place rather than doing it in Comment model?

CDub · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-11 18:40:08Z

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to_json only accepts a list of options, per the documentation... If you absolutely had to, you could monkey-patch to_json to do whatever work you needed to do, then call super to execute the default to_json, but I wouldn't recommend this.

In your situation, based on what I understand you're describing, it's probably best to simply do it either on the Comment model, or as a private method on the controller.

answered Jan 11, 2014 at 18:40

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ave Over a year ago

Thank you for that reference. I just noticed that the last example (2nd level and higher order associations) is exactly what I was looking for!

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