Question

I want to retrieve an entire user object via a get request. Currently, on of my methods looks like this:

  def user
    @user = User.find(current_user.id)
    render :json => @user 
  end

This returns the following json:

"{\"annonymous_token\":null,\"email\":\"[e-mail]\",\"name\":\"[e-mail]\"}"

My user object / schema has a many-to-many relationship with another model called pictures.

  has_many :picturization
  has_many :pictures, :through => :picturization

How can I modify my code such that returning the user also returns the pictures the user has. If helpful, I am using devise for user authentication.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use .as_json and pass params as I show here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11336145/308701

so you could do:

def user
  @user = User.find(current_user.id)
  render :json => @user.as_json(:include => :pictures)
end