armisael.silix.org » xml http://armisael.silix.org Armisael's scientific world Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:49:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Ruby on Rails: adding custom elements in generated xml http://armisael.silix.org/2009/04/ruby-on-rails-adding-custom-elements-in-generated-xml/ http://armisael.silix.org/2009/04/ruby-on-rails-adding-custom-elements-in-generated-xml/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:54:57 +0000 Armisael http://armisael.silix.org/?p=50 If you create a scaffold for your rails project, it will create for you a lot of things; for example, a way to show your object in xml format. But what about adding custom elements to that xml?

I solved in this way:

class MyObject < ActiveRecord::Base
  #[...]
  def to_xml(options={})
    cp = attributes.clone
    cp["something"] = "some value"
    cp["another thing"] = self.some_relation.length
    cp.to_xml(options)
  end
end
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