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    copied!<p>i have a Model</p> <pre><code>class Store has_many :opening_times #returns ActiveRecordRelation </code></pre> <p>i have an JSON API which calls something like </p> <pre><code>Store.first.opening_times.to_json </code></pre> <p>is there a way to make this method custom?</p> <p>of course i know that i can make a method like "opening_times_to_json" and call that in my json template, but maybe there is a nice Ruby or Rails way that a method can response to different formats?</p> <p><strong><em>EDIT</em></strong></p> <p>i want it like that</p> <p>and i did it now : </p> <pre><code>def opening_times_as_json #opening_times.map{|o| {o.weekday.to_sym=&gt;"#{o.open} - #{o.close}"}} { :monday=&gt;"#{opening_times[0].open} - #{opening_times[0].close}", :tuesday=&gt;"#{opening_times[1].open} - #{opening_times[1].close}", :wednesday=&gt;"#{opening_times[2].open} - #{opening_times[2].close}", :thursday=&gt;"#{opening_times[3].open} - #{opening_times[3].close}", :friday=&gt;"#{opening_times[4].open} - #{opening_times[4].close}", :satturday=&gt;"#{opening_times[5].open} - #{opening_times[5].close}", :sunday=&gt;"#{opening_times[6].open} - #{opening_times[6].close}" } end </code></pre> <p>which is the result what i want:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/kahtj.jpg" alt="Result"></p> <p>is there a more elegant way to realise that?</p> <pre><code>opening_time model has weekday as string, open as integer and close as integer </code></pre> <h1>EDIT 2 as request opening_time model</h1> <pre><code>class Advertisement::OpeningTime &lt; ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :weekday, :open, :close belongs_to :advertisement end </code></pre> <p>and the advertisement</p> <pre><code>class Advertisement &lt; ActiveRecord::Base has_many :opening_times def initialize(*params)super(*params) if (@new_record) %w(monday tuesday wednesday thursday firday saturday sunday).each do |weekday| self.opening_times.build weekday: weekday end end end </code></pre>
 

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