Question

I have a User model in rails with the following method:

  def current_project
    if(self.active_project != nil)
      @project = Project.find(self.active_project)
    end
  end

Note: active_project is an integer field on User which corresponds to the id of the project they are working on.

When I get the xml version of the User model, the project only renders the id, not all the other fields on that model – title, description, etc.

What do I need to do get the xml version of User to render all of the properties of the Project?

Answer 1

I don’t get the use of having such a current_project method. Maybe you can give some more information? Right now it seems that a simple

format.xml { render :xml => @user.to_xml(:include => :active_project) }

should work for your purpose. Am I missing something?

Edit: After reading the comments to the original thread

format.xml { render :xml => @user.to_xml(:methods => :current_project) }

will do the job.