Rails: include related object in JSON output
- by Codezy
I have a note class that belongs to a user (ie a user can create many notes).
clip from my notes controller
class NotesController < ApplicationController
before_filter :authenticate_user!
respond_to :html, :xml, :json
# GET /notes
# GET /notes.xml
def index
@notes = Note.includes(:user).order("created_at DESC")
respond_with @notes
end
When I ask for the index in json results for example /notes.json, it returns the notes but only returns user_id for the user object. I would like it to also include user.username (and would be curious how to have the whole user object embedded).
Bonus question: I could not find a way to make the column show as author_id and have it relate back to user. If this is easy to do, how do you do it?
