Activerecord's virtual attribute in find's array

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hi guys

i have a product model with many columns like cat1,cat2,cat3,name,desc,price,qty etc.

along with that i have a virtual attribute call full_name in model

attr_accessor :full_name

def full_name   cat1+cat2+cat3+name #something like this end

when i do Product.find(:all) in the product array the product's hash object does not have a attrubute with the name full_name.

although i know if i write prod.full_name it will work i want that attribute to be in the hash as a key-value pair as i want to convert the whole array to json.

what is the simplest way of doing this.

i had tried this but did not work

  def after_find     full_name   end

thanks jags

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to_json takes a :methods parameter where you can list methods to call whose result should be in the json eg

products.to_json :methods => :[full_name]

Fred