ActiveModel::Serialization

Active Model Serialization

Provides a basic serialization to a #serializable_hash for your objects.

A minimal implementation could be:

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Serialization

  attr_accessor :name

  def attributes
    {'name' => nil}
  end
end

Which would provide you with:

person = Person.new
person.serializable_hash   # => {"name"=>nil}
person.name = "Bob"
person.serializable_hash   # => {"name"=>"Bob"}

An attributes hash must be defined and should contain any attributes you need to be serialized. Attributes must be strings, not symbols. When called, serializable hash wil