If it helps you can make that the default for all your serializers, by doing something like this in an initializer: ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_model_ser

If it helps you can make that the default for all your serializers, by doing something like this in an initializer: ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_model_serializers) do ActiveModel::ArraySerializer.root = false ActiveModel::Serializer.root = false end