Perhaps something along the lines of the following would provide a good balance http://quickleft.com/blog/presenters-as-a-solution-to-asjson-woes-in-rails-apis

Perhaps something along the lines of the following would provide a good balance http://quickleft.com/blog/presenters-as-a-solution-to-asjson-woes-in-rails-apis http://quickleft.com/blog/presenters-as-a-solution-to-asjson... It's also worth noting that to_json should not be invoked directly these days in favor of as_json. It's now meant to more or less be an internal Rails API.