Hi! I wanted to get some feedback on the idea of enhancing the ActiveRecord ` attributes` method to also (optionally) return nested attributes
Example Let's say I have a `Car` model, which `has_one` `Driver` and `has_many` ` Passenger`(s). Also let's say the `Car` model `accepts_nested_attributes` for both the ` Driver` and `Passenger` models. A normal call to `@car.attributes` might result in { id: "5", make: "Saab", model: "9-3", year: "2008", automatic_transmission: true } The change would be to allow `attributes` to also return the nested sub-hashes. So `@car.attributes(include_nested: true)` would result in something like { id: "5", make: "Saab", model: "9-3", year: "2008", automatic_transmission: true driver_attributes: { name: "Foo Bar", age: 27 }, passengers_attributes: { "0" => { name: "Foo Bar1", height_cm: 170 }, "1" => { name: "Foo Bar2", height_cm: 195 } } } When working with Rails forms or form tests it seems handy to have the ability to generate all the attributes. This mirrors the behavior of `attributes=` which can read a nested attributes hash as well. This change would also follow the action* gem standard of whitelisting and blacklisting certain associations @car.attributes(include_nested: { only: [:passengers] }) @car.attributes(include_nested: { except: [:passengers] }) This is my first time contributing to the rails core, so would love to know what everyone thinks. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.