Another option is a decorator library like draper [1]. The README has a to_json example.
James [1] https://github.com/jcasimir/draper On 8 February 2012 12:13, Ben Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi roro, > > I have a very special purpose API built in Rails for an iPhone and Android > game. At the moment almost every Model has a custom as_json which does > things like limit the number of fields returned (for smaller payloads) and > to include extra relevant information (like data from associations). Some of > the as_json methods are getting incredibly disgusting as they take modes in > which they are being viewed (e.g. admin vs client). On top of this many of > the controller actions build ridiculous Hashes which mix a bunch of > different models together (especially bad in one particular monolithic > method, but unfortunately that method has to stay). > > So the solution I want to implement is to start rendering JSON Views. JSON > Views would make a lot of sense for what I'm doing. Especially for the > monolithic method, it would be amazing to split that up into partials. Is > there anything which is particularly good for this? Or should I just create > a bunch of .json.erb files? > > Cheers, > - Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
