Search⌘ K
AI Features
Home
Courses
Creating Long-Lived Web Apps with Ruby on Rails

Customizing JSON Serialization

Explore how to customize JSON serialization in Rails to control which attributes and related models appear in API responses. Understand the use of options like :except, :only, :include, and :methods in as_json to tailor JSON outputs for maintainable and clear API endpoints.

We'll cover the following...

Optimizing the JSON

The as_json method takes an optional argument called options. Every object in our Rails app will respect two options passed to as_json, which are mutually exclusive:

  • :except:
...