Question

I have two models:

class Calendar < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :events
end

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :calendar
end

I need to output all calendars with nested events as json and I can do it like so:

Calendar.all.to_json(:include => :events)

But I also need to filter events, for example:

where(:name => 'bla')

How would I do that? So far my solution is manually convert each calendar to hash, filter events and convert them to hash as well, then append events to calendar hash and convert to_json at the end. But I’m hoping there is a nicer approach.

Answer 1

I think this should work:

Calendar.includes(:events).where('events.name' => 'bla').to_json(:include => :events)