Serializing the errors hash in ActiveModel::Serializer

Question

I\'m using ActiveModel::Serializer to customize the JSON responses for my API. This works fine in most cases, except when it fails to save a model successfully.

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Answer 1

I believe that the problem in this case is that for the failed status you won't call render with an object, like for created status.

You can use a custom Serializer when calling render, for this case you can probably use something like

if resource.errors.any?
  render serializer: ErrorSerializer, json: {:status => 'failed', :errors => resource.errors}
else
  render json: {:status => 'created', :object => resource}
end

Give it a try and keep us informed of the result :)