Ruby on Rails "render json:" ignoring alias_attribute
I wouldn't expect render json: @accounts to include the aliased attributes at all. The alias_attribute just gives you the luxury of referring to the attribute with another name - it doesn't replace the original name at all.
If you do want to include the aliases in your json output for a model you can override as_json and add those methods explicitly:
def as_json(options = {}) options[:methods] ||= [] options[:methods] += [:name, :description] super(options)end(I've deliberately omitted :id as that may be a special case - not entirely sure and can't test locally at the moment)
I was able to solve this by overwriting serializable_hash method.
def serializable_hash(options = {}) options[:methods] ||= [] options[:methods] += [:name, :description] super(options)endYou can achieve the same result by passing methods argument to as_json without changing your default serialization of your models. like this:
render json: @accounts.as_json(methods: [:name, :description])