how i can render a json for an list of ActiveRecord in Rails?

Question

for example, i got a list of Target in my controller

@targets = @user.targets.all

then i want to render @targets as json result for client ajax call. in Target class define, i have some column i don't want to render. i know when render single @target, we can use

:only 

or

:except

but, how to deal with the list?

i tried

@targets.each do |target| xxxx end

to merge the json result, failed.

Answer 1

Override as_json in your Target class and specify which columns you don't want to be rendered.

More details here .