Cannot access attr_accessor defined variables

Question

I am using Thinking Sphinx to run searches and I get the appropriate ActiveRecord Models fine. The problem is, I want to create an appropriate link path and text on each mod

Answer 1

Rails' default to_json doesn't know about those extra non active record attributes you've added. The easiest possible thing is probably to specify them as extra methods to include:

format.json { render :json => @results.to_json(:methods => [:search_link, :search_text]) }