How to convert ActiveRecord results into an array of hashes

as_json

You should use as_json method which converts ActiveRecord objects to Ruby Hashes despite its name

tasks_records = TaskStoreStatus.alltasks_records = tasks_records.as_json# You can now add new records and return the result as json by calling `to_json`tasks_records << TaskStoreStatus.last.as_jsontasks_records << { :task_id => 10, :store_name => "Koramanagala", :store_region => "India" }tasks_records.to_json

serializable_hash

You can also convert any ActiveRecord objects to a Hash with serializable_hash and you can convert any ActiveRecord results to an Array with to_a, so for your example :

tasks_records = TaskStoreStatus.alltasks_records.to_a.map(&:serializable_hash)

And if you want an ugly solution for Rails prior to v2.3

JSON.parse(tasks_records.to_json) # please don't do it

May be?

result.map(&:attributes)

If you need symbols keys:

result.map { |r| r.attributes.symbolize_keys }

For current ActiveRecord (4.2.4+) there is a method to_hash on the Result object that returns an array of hashes. You can then map over it and convert to symbolized hashes:

# Get an array of hashes representing the result (column => value):result.to_hash# => [{"id" => 1, "title" => "title_1", "body" => "body_1"},      {"id" => 2, "title" => "title_2", "body" => "body_2"},      ...     ]result.to_hash.map(&:symbolize_keys)# => [{:id => 1, :title => "title_1", :body => "body_1"},      {:id => 2, :title => "title_2", :body => "body_2"},      ...     ]

See the ActiveRecord::Result docs for more info.