How to exclude specific fields from a Rails XML output

Question

I am working on a RoR project which outputs XML to RESTful requests. The problem is it includes the "updated-at" and "created-at" fields in the output.

I have tried using:

:exclude -> [ :created_at, :updated_at ] 

and

:exclude -> [ 'created-at', 'updated-at' ]

but the output still renders them. How do I exclude them from the rendering without these?

Answer 1

The option you want is called :except, not :exclude. For example:

obj.to_xml(:except => [ :created_at, :updated_at ])

For more info, see the Rails API docs for this method.